ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,183, issued on Nov. 18.

"System and method for evaluating hyperdocuments using a trained artificial neural network" was invented by Ellis Robinson Giles (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of a system for determining the disposition of a hyperdocument and hyperdocument requests using a trained artificial neural network, including an information source, a requesting application, and a server containing a trained artificial neural network (ANN), the ANN being capable of evaluating the information, and providing results reflecting the evaluation to a requesting application is described."

The patent was filed on Jan. 8...