ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,326, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Pivotal token search by perplexity" was invented by Ofir Ben Shoham (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Matan Vetzler (Givatayim, Israel), Amir Bialer (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shai Ardazi (Petach-Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying pivotal tokens are disclosed herein. An example method is performed by one or more processors of a computing system. The example method may include receiving, over a communications network from a computing device, a transmission including one or more input texts formed from a token sequence. The exa...