ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,539, issued on Sept. 15.
"Method and apparatus for improved analysis of legal documents" was invented by Matthew M. Tonuzi (Jacksonville, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides apparatus and method for improving analysis of legal documents. A legal document is parsed to generate a list of desired legal authorities. These legal authorities are then acquired from a trusted repository of authorities and processed through a modified text-to-speech program in a desired order to obtain a brief audio recording of the cited authorities. Citing references to the legal authorities may be filtered as appropriate an...