ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,188, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated decision modelling from text" was invented by Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin), Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Yufang Hou (Dublin), Denisa Claudia Moga (Collegewood, Ireland), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Marco Luca Sbodio (Castaheany, Ireland) and Inge Lise Vejsbjerg (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides for a method for automated decision modelling from text including obtaining a text corpus including a policy. Terms and syntax are identified within the text corpus related to the policy. Sent...