US Patent Issued to PAREXEL International on Aug. 25 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for annotation of text documents" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,006, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PAREXEL International LLC (Newton, Mass.).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for annotation of text documents" was invented by Christopher Potts (Palo Alto, Calif.), Evan Lin (San Francisco), Andrew Maas (Redwood City, Calif.), Abhilash Itharaju (Fremont, Calif.), Kevin Reschke (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jordan Vincent (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus to facilitate annotation projects to extract structured information from free-form text using NLP techniques. Annotators explore text documents via automated preannotation functions, flexibly formulate annotation sche...