ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,143, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Echobox Ltd (London).

"Topic clustering and event detection" was invented by Antoine Amann (London), Marc Fletcher (London) and Simon Tanne (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for identifying events based on a dataset comprising datapoints. The device comprises a clustering module configured to cluster the dataset into topic clusters; and a cluster cohesion filter module configured to filter datapoints in each topic cluster based on each datapoint's datapoint-to-cluster distance."

The patent was filed on Feb. 12, 2021, under Application No. 17/800,540.

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