Patents by Inventor Mariam Assefa

Mariam Assefa has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for analysis of international education credential equivalence
    Patent number: 9177078
    Abstract: A system for converting educational credentials from a first country to credentials for a second country includes a database configured to store data related to at least one of grading scales, credit scales, course descriptions, rankings, and weighting for educational credentials and a processor configured to receive data from a user related to course grades and credits earned in the first country and a selection of the second country. The processor retrieves data from the database based on the user data and converting the course grades and credits earned in the first country to grades, credits, and grade point averages for use in the second country based on the data from the database. The processor provides the grades, credits, and grade point averages equivalent in the second country to an electronic display for display to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: World Education Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Mariam Assefa, Steven Boss, Karyadi Kusumo, Margarita Sianou