ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,406, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Sartorius Stedim Data Analytics AB (Umea, Sweden).

"Accelerated document categorization using machine learning" was invented by Alexander Sutherland (Umea, Sweden), Rickard Sjogren (Roback, Sweden) and Astrid Stehl (Gottingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided. The method may comprise: obtaining at least one document to be classified; classifying, using a machine learning model including an artificial neural network (ANN) and an attention mechanism, the at least one document into at least two classes; determining, for each of the at least one doc...