ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,181, issued on June 23.
"System and method for artificial intelligence assisted processing of legal research queries" was invented by Joshua James Montgomery (White Plains, N.Y.), Connor Patrick Jennings (Des Moines, Iowa) and Brandon Kiefer (Ankeny, Iowa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system is disclosed which enhances legal research by utilizing a first user interface (UI) to receive search criteria as text prompts from users, which are then processed by an application program interface (API) across an electronic connection. The system includes an instruction base for expanding the prompts into snippets for a...