ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,153, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to CARDINAL HOLDINGS LLC (Evanston, Ill.).
"Search assistant method using computer vision analysis and artificial intelligence" was invented by Frank C. Nicholas (Wilmette, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search assistant method, the method of searching for patent documents material to elements of a target patent document including: receiving the target patent document including the elements, the target patent document being machine-readable; selecting keywords from the elements; identifying synonyms corresponding to the keywords in a synonym database; forming the keywords and the identified...