ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,850, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"System and method for combining unsupervised machine learning and information extraction models for topic modeling" was invented by Teresa S. Jade (Cary, N.C.), Meilan Ji (Beijing) and Russell D. Albright (Spring Lake, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system and method include receiving a set of documents from which to generate at least one topic, creating at least one information extraction model for the set of documents, executing the at least one information extraction model to extract a plurality of text segments from the set of docume...