ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,058, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Document re-finding system" was invented by Gonzalo A. Ramos (Kirkland, Wash.), Jin A. Suh (Seattle), Shiqian Rachel Ng (Seattle), Christopher Alan Meek (Kirkland, Wash.) and Haekyu Park (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A document re-finding system generates embeddings for concept clips provided by a user, the concept clips defining a concept for searching for content of interest to the user in a plurality of documents previously seen by the user. The re-finding system determines semantic relationships between the concept and document ...