ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,651, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. (Munich).

"Method and device for pre-selecting and determining similar documents" was invented by Thomas Hoppe (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method and apparatus for pre-selecting and determining similar documents from a set of documents having tokenized character strings. Calculating an inverted index for at least one subset of the documents that have the tokenized character strings. Calculating word embeddings for the tokenized character strings of the at least one subset of the documents. Calculating ...