ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,535, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated digital text optimization and modification" was invented by Sathya Santhar (Chennai, India), Sridevi Kannan (Chennai, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and computer program product for implementing automated digital text optimization is provided. The method includes receiving during execution of an Internet search process, digital textual content comprising embedded words, morphemes, and phrases. A specified format for genera...