ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,627, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP INC. (Boston).

"Optimization engine in a structured and unstructured data system" was invented by Pavel Erofeev (Boston), Ning Yang (Boston), Marcin Druzkowski (Boston) and Ronny Fehling (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are techniques that generate a structural representation of a plurality of documents, the structural representation including a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges, with the plurality of nodes being representations of the plurality of documents and the plurality of edges representing a feature in common between nodes of the plura...