US Patent Issued to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre on Sept. 15 for "System and methods for prospective legal research" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,399, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).

"System and methods for prospective legal research" was invented by Henry Chong (Cambridge, Mass.), Johannes Schleith (London), Nikolai Nefedov (Gattikon, Switzerland), David Oliver (London) and Daniella Tsar (Orpington, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for conducting prospective legal research, which comprises receiving an initiated user question at a graphical user interface comprising one or more search terms and performing query expansion on the received sea...