ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,776, issued on Oct. 20.

"System and methods for searching text utilizing categorical touch inputs" was invented by Michael Merkur (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for searching text utilizing categorical touch inputs, the method comprising: obtaining a written work; organizing the written work into one or more stories, the one or more stories comprised of one or more slices; filtering the one or more slices via a user input, the user input comprising at least one of a plurality of clusters and a manual tag; generating a text of the written work, the text of the written work derived from ...