ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,914, issued on March 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Questions disambiguation using generative evidence fusion and round-trip prediction" was invented by Yifan Gao (Yangzhou, China), Henghui Zhu (Jersey City, N.J.), Ramesh M. Nallapati (New Canaan, Conn.), Patrick Ng (Rego Park, N.Y.), Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos (Glen Ridge, N.J.), Zhiguo Wang (Syosset, N.Y.), Feng Nan (Great Neck, N.Y.), Dejiao Zhang (Jersey City, N.J.), Andrew Oliver Arnold (New York) and Bing Xiang (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for predicting an answer to a question using a machine learning model are describ...