ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,710, issued on March 4, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).

"Natural language processing system and method for documents" was invented by Nicholas E. Vandivere (Spring, Texas) and Michael B. Kuykendall (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods may receive documents, analyze the documents, categorize portions of the analyzed documents, and present the images of the documents and at least a portion of the categories. The analysis may include identification of categories and the presentation may include indicia of the portion of the imag...