ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,797, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Corpus quality processing for a specified task" was invented by Shashank Mujumdar (Nagpur, India), Vitobha Munigala (Secunderabad, India) and Hima Patel (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing within a computing environment is facilitated using a corpus processing system to assess and enhance quality of a corpus of unstructured documents for a specified task. The processing includes referencing, by a corpus processing engine, the corpus of unstructured documents to obtain unstructured document data, and applying, by a co...