ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,507, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Elucidated natural language artifact recombination with contextual awareness" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Nicholas Michael Wilkin (Issaquah, Wash.), Gray Franklin Cannon (Atlanta) and Christian Eggenberger (Wil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes identifying, from among the plurality of digital content datasets, a set of candidate textual items based on relevance to a specified subtopic using one or more natural language processing techniques. The embodiment groups candidate textual items...