US Patent Issued to Black Hills IP Holdings on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for analyzing prior art rejections" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,674, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Black Hills IP Holdings LLC (Minneapolis).

"Systems and methods for analyzing prior art rejections" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for analyzing office action documents are provided. The method comprises receiving a request for at least one cited reference. The method includes retrieving the at least one cited reference from an index, the index comprising one or more cited references and a rejection type for each of the one or more cited references; and providing the at least one cited reference and the rejection type for each...