ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,353, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated content tagging with latent Dirichlet allocation of contextual word embeddings" was invented by Nandan Gautam Thor (Mountain View, Calif.), Vasiliki Arvaniti (Amsterdam), Jere Armas Michael Helenius (Cupertino, Calif.) and Erik Michael Bower (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic content tags are generated as content is received by a dynamic content tagging system. A natural language processor (NLP) tokenizes the content and extracts contextual N-grams based on local or global context for the tokens in each document in t...