ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,558, issued on April 21, was assigned to REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Unsupervised focus-driven graph-based content extraction" was invented by Veronica Perez-Rosas (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ashkan Kazemi (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Rada Mihalcea (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing natural language text using a graph obtain a natural language text and a query text, and parse that the natural language text into the plurality of text units, associating each with a graph node, and removing information leak text units from the plurality of text units. Connecting relation...