ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,438, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Relation extraction from text-based documents" was invented by Sonal R. Pardeshi (Redmond, Calif.), Vittorio Castelli (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Bonan Min (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kishaloy Halder (Issaquah, Wash.), Yogarshi Paritosh Vyas (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Venkatesh Nagapudi (San Jose, Calif.) and Kapil Singh Badesara (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for generating a set of entity data items using an entity recognition model and text of a document, wherein a first entity data item of the set of entity data items represents a...