ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,663, issued on March 25, was assigned to HUMMINGBIRD IP LLC (Orlando, Fla.).

"Patent matching analysis system" was invented by Michael A. Liberty (Orlando, Fla.), Ricardo O. Giovannone (Albiate, Italy) and Giovanni A. Dalmaso (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patent matching analysis system receives an input indicating a source patent or a court case. When the input indicates a court case, the system identifies a patent associated with the court case, which is deemed as a source patent. For each source patent, the system retrieves a source patent document, parses textual information of the source patent document using an NLP...