ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,666, issued on May 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Stable identification of entity mentions" was invented by Aaron Michael Taylor (Cambridge, Mass.), Henry Forrest Leanna Wallace (Cambridge, Mass.), John Randolph Frank (Cambridge, Mass.) and Andrew Richard Gallant (Marlborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An entity-based platform stores a database of entity mentions and related, entity-based information obtained by processing text in a corpus of documents such as content from a public network or content from a document management system. The platform may analyze changes to a previously-processed documen...