ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,578, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Leveraging structured data to rank unstructured data" was invented by Ankit Kumar Singh (Ranchi, India), Ratul Sarkar (Bangalore, India), Noor Mohammed Ashrafi (Bangalore, India) and Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, computer program product, and method are presented for leveraging structured data and unstructured data, and, more specifically, to ranking documentation from unstructured data sources through leveraging insights provided by the structured data to facilitate associated business ...