ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,044, issued on July 15, was assigned to RELATIVITY ODA LLC (Chicago).

"System and method for automatic identification of legal entities" was invented by Jasneet Singh Sabharwal (Vancouver, Canada), Somya Anand (Vancouver, Canada) and Ayushi Dalmia (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer readable media for identifying entities as legal entities are provided. These techniques may include accessing a corpus of documents and applying a persona prediction machine learning algorithm to classify entities associated with the corpus of documents. The persona prediction machine learning algorithm may in...