ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,988, issued on March 18, was assigned to Originality.ai Inc. (Collingwood, Canada).

"Text analysis and verification methods and systems" was invented by Jonathan Gillham (Collingwood, Canada), Conor Watt (Collingwood, Canada) and Liam Mcnally (Collingwood, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method and system focus on the analysis and validation of text. The analysis discerns if the text originates from artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms. The text is then segmented, with each segment undergoing a comparative analysis against indexed content in search engine databases to derive a plagiarism score. The factual sta...