ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,377, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Extracting definitions from documents utilizing definition-labeling-dependent machine learning background" was invented by Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh (Eugene, Ore.), Franck Dernoncourt (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Quan Tran (San Jose, Calif.), Yiming Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lidan Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Rajiv Jain (Vienna, Va.), Vlad Morariu (Potomac, Md.) and Walter Chang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that extract a definition for a term from a source docum...