ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,703, issued on June 3, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generative model for aspect term extraction" was invented by Amir Pouran Ben Veyseh (Eugene, Ore.) and Franck Dernoncourt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure receive an input phrase including an aspect term; generate a complement phrase based on the input phrase using a language generator model, wherein the complement phrase includes different words than the input phrase; combine a representation of the input phrase and a representation of the compl...