ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,191, issued on June 23, was assigned to Element Materials Technology Ltd. (London).

"Apparatus and method for automated evaluation of technical standards relevant to a product" was invented by Jean-Claude Ton (Zurich), Christopher Smith (Sherman Oaks, Calif.) and Anton Fortunatov (Merstham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to utilize natural language processing operations to produce technology standard document segments from a technology standard document. The technology standard document segments are converted to a knowledge graph ...