ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,817, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Moat Metrics Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).
"Intellectual-property landscaping platform" was invented by Lewis C. Lee (Seattle) and Jeffrey Brendan Ryan (Liberty Lake, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) landscaping platform architectures are disclosed. A landscaping component may be utilized to produce refined clusters of IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The landscaping c...