US Patent Issued to TRUEBLUE on Nov. 3 for "Skills proficiency scoring using weight prediction and reinforcement learning" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,975, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TRUEBLUE INC. (Tacoma, Wash.).

"Skills proficiency scoring using weight prediction and reinforcement learning" was invented by Jatin Malhotra (Quebec, Canada) and Matthew Wolfe (Littleton, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described include a skill scoring system that quantifies the gap between demand supply and rates the level of expertise for each skill. A neural network including an attention mechanism may output an initial set of demand weights for a demand equation and an initial set of supply weights for a supply equation, wherein the information related to worker dema...