ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,666, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Enhanced document retrieval with semantic depth and syntactic structure" was invented by Siddharth Jain (Mountain View, Calif.), Sivashanker Thiruchittampalam (Toronto), Jonathan Lin (Gloucester, Canada) and Venkat Narayan Vedam (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure describe a method of information retrieval. In certain aspects, the method includes identifying a set of relevant nodes of a document graph embedding semantic units associated with the document based on a document search query. The method...