ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,957, issued on Sept. 1.

"Formal transformer: system and method for deterministically transforming documents into multiple representations and automated control of downstream automated system execution" was invented by Jean-Jacques Grimaud (Winchester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, the Formal Transformer comprises a computer-implemented system configured to deterministically transform a document into a plurality of independent formal representation views governed by predefined operator grammars and constraints, and to automatically govern downstream automated system execution based on multi-representation adm...