ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,144, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Caching of text analytics based on topic demand memory constraints" was invented by Gandhi Sivakumar (Bentleigh, Australia), Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya (Bangalore, India), Vijay Ekambaram (Chennai, India) and Luke Peter Macura (Lucas, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes analyzing text content of a user query to identify via natural language processing (NLP) a query topic. The embodiment maps the query topic to a topic cluster at a node of a hierarchical model of a text database. The embodiment generates quer...