ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,849, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Standigm Inc. (Seoul, South Korea) and SK HOLDINGS Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for identifying association between disease-related factors from document data, and system constructed using same" was invented by Young Sang Paik (Seoul, South Korea), Youngseog Yoon (Bucheon-si, South Korea), Ye Chan Ha (Hanam-si, South Korea), Chanung Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hee Jung Koo (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Tae Yong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method capable of recognizing disease-related factors included in document data...