ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,540, issued on April 21, was assigned to Moat Metrics Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Breadth scoring using relevant document term frequency" was invented by Hemakshi Shardha (Kearny, N.J.), David Craig Andrews (Duvall, Wash.), John E. Bradley III (Duvall, Wash.) and Lewis C. Lee (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generation and use of document analysis platform architectures are disclosed. The document analysis platform may be configured to determine word frequencies for words included in a given portion of a given document based on a frequency of occurrences of the words in additional documents that are simila...