ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,850, issued on May 12, was assigned to HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY (Hartford, Conn.).

"User generated tag collection system and method" was invented by Saira A. Kazmi (Glastonbury, Conn.), Arthur Paul Drennan III (Avon, Conn.), Steven J Cultrera (Newington, Conn.), Vasanth Madhavan Srinivasaraghavan (South Windsor, Conn.) and Justin G. Plock (Southport, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an input document is received at a tagging platform, via a communication device, and associates it with a tag request. The tagging platform automatically selects at least one electronic record associated with a first user fr...