ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,002, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cascade Reading Inc. (Edina, Minn.).

"Linguistically-driven automated text formatting" was invented by Julie A. Van Dyke (New Haven, Conn.), Michael Gorman (Edina, Minn.) and Mark Lacek (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic...