ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,804, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, Calif.).

"Comprehensibility scores determined for the documents" was invented by Kevin Males (Kings Lynn, Great Britain) and Alistair James Brain (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for sorting documents according to comprehensibility scores determined for the documents. A document has sections of text associated with topics. A determination is made of familiarity scores for a user for the topics associated with the sections of text in the document. A determination is ...