ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,946, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Document classification using unsupervised text analysis with concept extraction" was invented by Mikael Hillborg (Umea, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for classifying documents using unsupervised text analysis with concept extraction. The embodiment may obtain a generic description for a document by: extracting concepts from headings and descriptions of a target document using natural language processing, matching the extracted concepts to generic abstracts obtained from an abstract database, where the abstract datab...