Arria NLG plc announced that it has received notice from the United States Patent and Trademark Office that its application for a patent on its Method and Apparatus for Situational Analysis Text Generation will be granted. Arria NLG's Chief Scientist, Prof. Ehud Reiter, led a team that created this important new feature of the Arria NLG Engine™. The new patent is a continuation of the U.S. patent application bearing the same title.

Arria NLG's patents and patent applications cover critical NLG processes that the Company currently applies to innovative applications delivered to its growing list of global clients, as well as to a range of SaaS-delivered packaged applications that are in development for a number of markets and to the Company's proprietary Software Development Toolkit. Arria NLG's expanding patent portfolio strengthens its plan to become the global leader in automating data analysis and information delivery in any industrial or consumer setting.