ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,220, issued on June 30, was assigned to RELATIVITY ODA LLC (Chicago).

"Systems and methods for conceptual highlighting of document search results" was invented by Ryan McGinty Hynes (London), Theo Van Wijk (Chicago), Evan McAlpine (Ypsilanti, Mich.) and James A. Witte Jr. (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a conceptual search and highlighting relevant portions of a content item are provided. The methods may include: receiving one or more input concepts from a user device; calculating concept scores for the one or more input concepts for one or more content items; based on the concept scores for...