ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,917, issued on March 25, was assigned to 42Maru Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of retrieving document and apparatus for retrieving document" was invented by Dong Hwan Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Wuk Son (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyun Ok Kim (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), You Kyung Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), In Je Seong (Seoul, South Korea), Yong Sun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Ha Kyeom Moon (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of retrieving a document according to an embodiment of the present application includes: acquiring a user retrieval query; calculating a user inquiry vector in a unit of sentence...