US Patent Issued to Black Hills IP Holdings on Feb. 24 for "System and method for patent and prior art analysis" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,337, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Black Hills IP Holdings LLC (Minneapolis).

"System and method for patent and prior art analysis" was invented by Steven W. Lundberg (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure include systems and methods for analyzing patents and prior art in a patent management system. In an example embodiment, a computer-implemented method of determining a potential point of novelty for an identified patent comprises retrieving at least one independent claim of the patent in the claim form as issued; retrieving at least one independent claim of the patent in the ...