ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,363, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Systems and methods for identifying and analyzing risk events from data sources" was invented by Charles Njelita (Edison, N.J.), Sukadev Khatua (Bhubaneswar, India) and Yibei Ling (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional methods of analyzing social media content involves performing sentimental analysis to understand related sentiment and effects of events on communities. However, such analysis may not be completely accurate and are prone to errors. Present disclosure provides system and method that identify and analyze risk event...