ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,147, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detection of events of interest using a natural language processing system" was invented by William Tigard Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Dallas Allen Warren (Redmond, Wash.), Swamy V.P.L.N. Nallamalli (Bothell, Wash.), Aaron Edward Dietrich (Kirkland, Wash.), Piyush Gupta (Kirkland, Wash.) and Robert M. Fries (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for providing automated event of interest detection and reporting for software testing. The technology described herein uses natural language processing to identify events of i...