ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,057, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adaptive analysis of digital contract modifications" was invented by Amy D Travis (Arlington, Mass.), Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland), Alexander Mariyaswamy (Bengaluru, India), Kartik Misra (Gurgaon, India) and Kelly Silva de Oliveira (Guarulhos, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment performs, by a digital contract modification analysis engine, a modification analysis between a first digital contract and a second digital contract. The embodiment identifies, by the digital contract modification analysis engine, a modific...