ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,302, issued on May 27, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for time-series query focused document summarization from multiple documents" was invented by Carsten Witte (London), Shade El-Hadik (New York), Nicholas Adams-Cohen (San Jose, Calif.) and Emanuel Munguia Tapia (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a processor configured to obtain a time series of documents; determine query scores for particular documents of the time series of documents based on a set of query terms; and determine time scores for the particular documents based on timestam...