ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,895, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Behavior-driven query similarity prediction based on language model for database search" was invented by Yupin Huang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved search system can address sparse behavioral signals. Machine learning is used to determine queries with historical data that are similar to an input query, which have limited behavioral signals. Co-acquisitions of items for query pairs are used to generate a similarity value for the pairs, which are used as labels during training of machine learning models. Multiple machine le...