ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,205, issued on June 30, was assigned to CiteAB Ltd. (Bath, Great Britain).
"Method for citation identification" was invented by Adam Pope (Bath, Great Britain), Robert Willison (Bath, Great Britain) and Matthew Helsby (Bath, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for identifying a product citation in a document, the method comprising searching, in the document, for an entity identifier corresponding to an entity and, if an instance of the entity identifier is detected in the document, determining a portion of the document around the instance of the entity identifier as a target text, wherein the en...