ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,258, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of creating clusters for feedback data" was invented by Sathia Prabhu Thirumal (Bothell, Wash.), Christopher Lawrence Laterza (Issaquah, Wash.), Rashmi Mala Brahma (Seattle) and Pranav Jayant Farswani (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for generating clusters for feedback data may include receiving a request for clustering feedback data, the request including one or more parameters relating to the feedback data, retrieving a plurality of vectorized feedbacks stored in a key value format, t...