ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,965, issued on July 14, was assigned to Pryon Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Intelligent document system" was invented by David Nahamoo (Great Neck, N.Y.), Igor Roditis Jablokov (Raleigh, N.C.) and Clifford A. Pickover (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent document system provides one or more users, who are recipients of documents, with a way to "interact" with the documents for example for the purpose of understanding the content of the documents, and taking appropriate action in response to receiving the documents. Interacting with one or more documents can include navigating the documents guided by semantic...