US Patent Issued to LexisNexis on July 22 for "Methods and systems for performing legal brief analysis" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,228, issued on July 22, was assigned to LexisNexis (New York).

"Methods and systems for performing legal brief analysis" was invented by Sanjay Sharma (Raleigh, N.C.), Janardhana R. Punuru (Cary, N.C.), Mahesh Pendyala (Folsom, Calif.) and Mark Shewhart (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a computing device, an electronic document, wherein the electronic document is a legal brief comprising a plurality of paragraphs; identifying one or more argument paragraphs from among the plurality of paragraphs, wherein each of the one or more argument paragraphs includes one or more legal arguments; perf...