ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,479, issued on July 29, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for document deviation detection" was invented by Elizabeth Roman (Somerville, Mass.), Hella-Franziska Hoffmann (London), Josh Lemaitre (Ipswich, Mass.), Nikolai Nefedov (Gattikon, Switzerland) and David Von Rickenbach (Baar, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for detecting deviations from a standard document in a document being analyzed. The inventive systems and methods include performing a first level analysis to detect portions of a standard ...