ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,897, issued on June 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identification of an unknown author of a creative work" was invented by Sanmitra Sarkar (Kolkata, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India) and Sumitro Ghatak (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment establishes a creative work database based in part on data representative of a plurality of identified creative works and authors associated with the plurality of identified creative works. The embodiment extracts a set of a first set of features from an unidentified creative work. The embodiment compares the first se...