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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2025

Filed:

Jun. 09, 2023
Applicant:

Black Hills Ip Holdings, Llc, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Inventor:

Steven W. Lundberg, Edina, MN (US);

Assignee:

Black Hills IP Holdings, LLC, Minneapolis, MN (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2025.01); G06F 16/334 (2025.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/34 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/36 (2019.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 40/247 (2020.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06Q 10/00 (2023.01); G09G 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3326 (2019.01); G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3344 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/345 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/374 (2019.01); G06F 16/40 (2019.01); G06F 16/9017 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 16/951 (2019.01); G06F 40/247 (2020.01); G06F 40/289 (2020.01); G06F 40/30 (2020.01); G06Q 10/00 (2013.01); G09G 5/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

An apparatus and computer implemented method that include obtaining, into a computer, text of a patent, automatically finding and extracting, using the computer, a set of claim text from the patent text, identifying, using the computer, text of independent claims from the set of claim text, displaying in a first row on a computer monitor the text of the independent claims, automatically determining a plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases from the text of the independent claims, displaying in a second row on the computer monitor the text of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases, eliciting and receiving user input to specify a first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concepts phrases, and highlighting each occurrence of the specified first one of the plurality of preliminary scope-concept phrases in a plurality of the independent claims displayed in the first row. A scope concept builder tool is also provided.


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