ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,641, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Text IQ Inc. (New York).
"Automatic document classification" was invented by Xiao Liu (New Haven, Conn.), Jasneet Singh Sabharwal (Vancouver, Canada), Apoorv Agarwal (New York), Ethan Benjamin (New York) and Xing Zeng (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include obtaining a set of documents. Text objects from a text object database generated based on the set of documents may be compared to a search term object to identify relevant text objects that match the search term object. A context object for each of the relevant text objects that indicate usage of the relevant tex...