ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,525, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Lucid Patent LLC (Minneapolis).
"Patent mapping" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.), Janal M. Kalis (Minneapolis) and Pradeep Sinha (Medina, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive subject matter provides systems, methods, software, and data structures for patent mapping, storage, and searching. Some such embodiments include mapping patent documents, claims, and claim limitations. Some further embodiments provide for searching a universe of patent documents by patent document, claim, limitation, class, element, or concept."
The patent was filed on Aug. 25, 2023,...