ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,913, issued on May 6, was assigned to BEIJING BENYING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Automatic industry classification method and system" was invented by Kai Cao (Beijing), Weining Li (Beijing) and Minyue Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic industry classification method comprises: determining a scope of target patents, defining a target industry tree; generating marks on the target industry tree; performing a rough classification for the target patents by using the marks; performing a fine classification for the target patents according to a result of the rough classification. The automatic industry classif...