ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,383, issued on July 1, was assigned to CONCENTRIC SOFTWARE INC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for clustering documents based on semantic similarity" was invented by Madhusudana Shashanka (Austin, Texas), Bonnie Arogyam Varghese (Milpitas, Calif.), Leomart Crisostomo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shankar Subramaniam (Cupertino, Calif.) and Sumeet Khirwal (Jamshedpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for clustering documents according to semantic similarity are disclosed. The method includes generating an embedding for each of a plurality of documents to form a plurality of embeddings. Each embedding is indicat...