ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,459, issued on July 29, was assigned to Novoic Ltd. (London).

"Method of evaluating text similarity for diagnosis or monitoring of a health condition" was invented by Jack Weston (Greater London, Great Britain) and Emil Fristed (Greater London, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer implemented method of training a machine learning model to evaluate the similarity of a candidate text to a reference text for determining or monitoring a health condition, where the model takes a text comparison pair comprising a reference text and a candidate text, each comprising data encoding a text sequence, ...