ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,506, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Trustees of Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.).

"Generating fake documents using word embeddings to deter intellectual property theft" was invented by Venkatramanan Subrahmanian (Evanston, Ill.), Dongkai Chen (Mountain View, Calif.), Haipeng Chen (Williamsburg, Va.), Deepti Poluru (Hanover, N.H.) and Almas Abdibayev (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for generating fake documents. A corpus of domain specific documents is built and word embeddings for each word in such documents are identified as embedding vectors. Co...