ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,416, issued on April 14, was assigned to Daystrom Information Systems LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid artificial intelligence system for semi-automatic patent claims analysis" was invented by Stephen G. Sullivan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) and Arnold E. Brown II (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user interface is displayed to enable a user to initiate a search based on a selected reference document. The UI displays options that enable the user to narrow the search, and the UI receives from the user a selection of portions of the reference document to search against and any annotations. A query is submitted to find a s...