ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,667, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Vital4Data LLC (Marietta, Ga.).

"Systems and processes for contextualized entity resolution and sentiment analysis in adverse media screening" was invented by Kellan Williams (Granville, Ohio), Amy Barbieri (Atlanta), Scott Stafford (Marietta, Ga.) and Michael Franks (Dallas, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adverse media screening system for automatically processing and analyzing vast amounts of unstructured data to provide accurate, contextually relevant adverse media screening may utilize one or more computing devices equipped with processors to implement advanced machine learning and n...