ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,278, issued on July 15, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Automated generation and integration of an optimized regular expression" was invented by Vinu Varghese (Bangalore, India), Nirav Jagdish Sampat (Mumbai, India), Balaji Janarthanam (Chennai, India), Anil Kumar (Bangalore, India), Shikhar Srivastava (Bangalore, India), Kunal Jaiwant Kharsadia (Pune, India) and Saran Prasad (Nagar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for obtaining optimized regular expression may convert a received input data into a plurality of embeddings. The system may receive a generated regular expression corresponding to t...