ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,397, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Theia Analytics Group Inc. (Washington).

"Methods and apparatus for natural language processing and governance" was invented by Jeffrey J Hood (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to computer-implemented methods of governance risk analysis and scoring of documents that includes: extracting raw text from documents; transforming individual words from the raw text into nodes and edges that create networks of nodes and edges; analyzing certain words pertaining to governance, and graphing the words to a network of nodes and edges; assessing the certain words in the net...