ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,399, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG SDS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for processing natural language" was invented by Hyunjae Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Bongkyu Hwang (Seoul, South Korea), Judong Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewoong Yun (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunjin Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for processing natural language includes a collection module for collecting a document having style information on text in the document, a preprocessing module for extracting style information from the text of the collected document, and labeling the extracted style in...