ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,289, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).

"System and method for finding similar documents based on semantic factual similarity" was invented by Mina Farid (Waterloo, Canada), Brian Zubert (Waterloo, Canada), Lisa Bender (Alma, Canada) and Hella-Franziska Hoffmann (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for finding documents that are similar to a reference text. The inventive systems and methods examine a set of collected documents to determine the facts present in those documents by, for example, extracting triplets...