ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,195, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"System and methods for classification of unstructured data using similarity metrics" was invented by Debashis Ghosh (Charlotte, N.C.), Maria Chiarenza (Indian Trail, N.C.), Nathaniel D. Mollison (Edina, Minn.) and Matthew C. Howell (Waukee, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for obtaining relevant data from an unstructured data source. An example method includes extracting relevant data that is intermixed with extraneous data using natural language processing. In order to do so, tex...