ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,879, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intelex Technologies ULC (Toronto).

"Method and system for identifying citations within regulatory content" was invented by Mahdi Ramezani (Vancouver, Canada), Elijah Solomon Krag (Vancouver, Canada), Amir Abbas Tahmasbi (Vancouver, Canada) and Margery Moore (Salt Spring Island, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method for identifying citations within regulatory content is disclosed. The method involves receiving image data representing a format and layout of the regulatory content, receiving a language embedding including a plurality of tokens representing...