ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,271, issued on March 18, was assigned to Boardroom Venture Partners LLC (Conifer, Colo.).

"Natural language processing using language neutral verb expression patterns" was invented by Victoria Lauren Norris (Conifer, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for improved understanding of text or speech sequences utilizing language neutral verb expression patterns (LNVEP). The LNVEP system deconstructs the text or speech sequences to uncover the LNVEP, which includes one or more essential component categories with a certain verb to yield a universally understandable, appropriate verb expression. The LNVEP identifies t...