ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,973, issued on March 18, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Intelligent information retrieval system and method" was invented by Shailesh Gavankar (Princeton, N.J.), Afrid Mondal (Karnataka, India), Keon Park (Yonkers, N.Y.), Sanket Jain (Karnataka, India) and Abhijit Naik (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Smart information retrieval is provided via artificial intelligence. Content stored in documents in a database is accessed and contextual chunks of individual ones of the documents are identified, wherein the contextual chunks include portions of content stored in the individual ones o...