US Patent Issued to Shine Analytics on May 6 for "System, method and apparatus for automatic categorization and assessment of billing narratives" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,391, issued on May 6, was assigned to Shine Analytics Ltd. (Dublin).

"System, method and apparatus for automatic categorization and assessment of billing narratives" was invented by Ian Nolan (Dublin), Alex Kelly (Dublin), Ciaran Flood (Longford, Ireland), Sean Harrison (Offaly, Ireland) and Michael Dineen (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for automatic categorization and assessment of billing narratives has a semantic engine that classifies billing entries with descriptions expressed in natural language into standardized categories of activity and task objective. The classification is by machine learning methods via tr...