ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,922, issued on March 17, was assigned to Allstate Insurance Co. (Northbrook, Ill.).

"Natural language processing platform for automated event analysis, translation, and transcription verification" was invented by Olivia Mahler-Haug (Chicago), Connor Walsh (Lake Forest, Ill.), Geoff Colgan (Arlington Heights, Ill.), Matthew Cluck (Schaumburg, Ill.), Ross Kirk Eley (Belfast, Ireland) and Harideep Yeddula (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to computing platforms that utilize improved natural language processing techniques for claims processing. A computing platform may receive an audio file and det...