ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,959, issued on June 17, was assigned to LegalMente AI Inc. (San Antonio).

"Systems and methods for automated issue spotting in legal documents and providing educational feedback" was invented by Jose Padilla (San Antonio) and Douglas Davila-Pestana (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is for systems and methods for providing industry specific contract analysis in order to provide legal education associated with potential concerns with the provisions of said contract. Through the use of an AI model(s) trained to evaluate contracts documents from the same perspective as an experienced attorney would actua...