ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,338, issued on July 22, was assigned to Genpact USA Inc. (New York).

"Aspect based sentiment analysis with contextual grouping of aspects" was invented by Varsha Rani (Gurgaon, India), Prakash Selvakumar (Bangalore, India) and Sreekanth Menon (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for aspect-based sentiment analysis includes receiving a collection of textual data, extracting a set of aspects and a set of sentiment words from the textual data, identifying a set of aspect-sentiment word pairs from the extracted aspects and sentiment words, identifying a subset of aspect-sentiment word pairs according to a set of pred...