ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,100, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intelligent classification of text-based content" was invented by Tonu Vanatalu (Tallinn, Estonia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches to classifying text-based content are described herein. For example, a classification system performs operations that include receiving text-based content comprising a plurality of characters, generating a plurality of character category sequences using the plurality of characters and based on a plurality of predefined character categories, calculating a frequency distribution of the plurality of character...