ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,648, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Open Text Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods of partial content highlighting for electronic discovery" was invented by Shivanand Chikkalli (Hyderabad, India), Nikhil Raj (Hyderabad, India) and Lalitha Kaparapu (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for partial content highlighting are provided. The method begins with receiving a workbook document. Cell data of the workbook document is pre-processed. For each worksheet of the workbook document, the cell data is indexed to generate an indexed file. When the cell data is indexed, the indexed file is stored ...