ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,183, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Method and system for insightful phrase extraction from text" was invented by Miruna Jayakrishnasamy (Vellore, India) and Prakash Ranganathan (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to extracting insightful phrases from an input text. Independent contexts are first identified from the input text. With respect to each independent context, initial candidate phrases are generated with respect to linguistic features and are then filtered. Various features are then computed for each filtered candidate phras...