US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 16 for "Smart identification of indicator text with full-text search or optimized document analysis" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,306, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Smart identification of indicator text with full-text search or optimized document analysis" was invented by Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Baessler (Bempflingen, Germany) and Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Several aspects for optimizing unstructured document analysis comprise operating a document system, where the document system comprises a plurality of documents comprising unstructured content and a full-text index; receiving a request to identify documents comprising a type o...