ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,613, issued on March 31, was assigned to Wells Fargo Bank N.A. (San Francisco).

"Automated topic modelling and visualization based upon service phase" was invented by Misty Kay Ritchie (Cramerton, N.C.), Tyler Browning Goodman (Okemos, Mich.), Wei Wang (Media, Pa.), Stephen James Braje (Minneapolis), Maryam Heidari Beisafar (Hoboken, N.J.) and Joseph Matthew Walter (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which create various data visualizations from a corpus of raw data collected from one or more sources. For example, natural language text...