ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,882, issued on June 2.

"System and method of identifying a variation of a phrase in a textual passage" was invented by Eyal Orbach (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Avraham Faizakof (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Lev Haikin (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Nelly David (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Rotem Moaz (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of identifying occurrence of a semantic variation of a phrase in a passage by at least one processor may include calculating a phrase embedding vector, representing a semantic meaning of the phrase; extracting, from a textual representation of the passage, at least one hierarchical set of nested sequences o...