ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,386, issued on June 16, was assigned to IQVIA INC. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Classification code parser" was invented by Brian Berns (Bethesda, Md.) and Kirk Junker (Hillsboro, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classification code parser and method can include: reading a classification code having a description; reading a required keyword, and a total number of keywords associated with the classification code; reading text of a note; tokenizing the text of the note to create a note token stream, the note token stream having a note token and a position of the note token within the note token stream; creating a keyword map including a to...