ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,827, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Moat Metrics Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Aligning products and/or technologies to intellectual property using language modeling" was invented by Samuel Cameron Fleming (Spokane, Wash.) and Lucas Shoop (Spokane, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generation and use of IP (IP) mapping platform architectures are disclosed. A mapping component may be utilized to obtain product lists, technology area lists, and/or sub-technology lists in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or entity portfolios...