ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,372, issued on April 21, was assigned to QOMPLX LLC (Reston, Va.).

"System and method for automated analysis of legal documents within and across specific fields" was invented by Jason Crabtree (Vienna, Va.) and Andrew Sellers (Monument, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated analysis of legal documents within and across different fields is disclosed. An extraction processor identifies and extracts knowledge from data contained in documents and transforms it into a common data form. An analysis processor develops local and global knowledge graphs containing the key entities, relationships and concepts encoded in the text." ...