ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,397, issued on May 13, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining semantic similarity of texts based on sub-sections thereof" was invented by Omer Anil Turkkan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Firat Karakusoglu (San Jose, Calif.) and Sriram Palapudi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to compare a target sample of text to a set of textual records, each textual record including a sample of text and an indication of one or more segments of text within the sample of text. Semantic similarity values between the target sample of text and each of the textual records are determ...