US Patent Issued to Spectacles on July 21 for "Definition retrieval and display" (Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,356, issued on July 21, was assigned to Spectacles LLC (Lewes, Del.).

"Definition retrieval and display" was invented by Naresh Lall (Lewes, Del.) and William DeCotiis (Lewes, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method including obtaining a first text of a natural language text document displayed by the application, detecting a definitional statement in the first text, and parsing a defined term and a definition of the defined term from the definitional statement. The method also includes storing the defined term and the definition in an entry in a dictionary data structure and associating the entry with a location in t...