ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,180, issued on March 25.
"Natural language text analysis" was invented by Stefan Pleshoyano (Montreal, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing non-statistical text analysis are provided. Essentially unconstrained natural language text may be segmented into individual terms, which are assigned a semantic category with the aid of a category lexicon and category association table. Categorized terms may be grouped into expressions if they commonly refer to a concept. Terms, as well as information about their categories and groupings into expressions, may be organized into information blocks, which each m...