ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,829, issued on May 5, was assigned to Praedicat Inc. (Culver City, Calif.).

"Automatic generation of scientific article metadata" was invented by Andrea Melissa Boudreau (Los Angeles), Lauren Caston (Los Angeles), Naresh Chebolu (Reston, Va.), Adam Grossman (Los Angeles), Liyang Hao (Los Angeles), David Loughran (Santa Monica, Calif.), Michael Ragland (Tustin, Calif.), Robert Reville (Los Angeles) and Chun-Yuen Teng (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods of using natural language processing techniques to automatically assign metadata to articles as they are published. ...