ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,323, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"Determining adequacy of documentation using perplexity and probabilistic coherence" was invented by Douglas S. McNair (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for determining deficiencies in narrative textual data that may impact decision-making in a decisional context. A candidate text document and a reference corpus of text may be utilized to generate one or more topic models and document-term matrices, and then to determine a corresponding statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence. Statistical determinations of a d...