US Patent Issued to Black Hills IP Holdings on June 24 for "Automated patent claim scope concept mapping" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,880, issued on June 24, was assigned to Black Hills IP Holdings LLC (Minneapolis).

"Automated patent claim scope concept mapping" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and computer implemented method that include obtaining, into a computer, text of a patent, automatically finding and extracting, using the computer, a set of claim text from the patent text, identifying, using the computer, text of independent claims from the set of claim text, displaying in a first row on a computer monitor the text of the independent claims, automatically determining a plurality of preliminary sc...