ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,629, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying regulatory data corresponding to executable rules" was invented by Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Marco Luca Sbodio (Castaheany, Ireland), Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin), Natalia Mulligan (Dublin), Yufang Hou (Dublin), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Inge Lise Vejsbjerg (Dublin) and Joao H Bettencourt-Silva (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are provided for correlating regulatory data in a computing environment by a processor. A rule may be associated with one or more textual paragraphs extracted from a po...