US Patent Issued to Recorded Future on Feb. 17 for "Information service for facts extracted from differing sources on a wide area network" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,728, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Recorded Future Inc. (Somerville, Mass.).

"Information service for facts extracted from differing sources on a wide area network" was invented by Staffan Truve (Alingsas, Sweden) and Christopher Ahlberg (Watertown, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one general aspect, a wide area network fact information service method is disclosed. This method includes storing a plurality of canonical fact entries, storing one or more fact descriptor entries for each of the canonical fact entries, and ranking the canonical fact entries relative to each other based on the descriptor entries."

The patent ...