US Patent Issued to Ancestry.com Operations on Dec. 9 for "Extraction of keyphrases from genealogical descriptions" (Utah, California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,745, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Ancestry.com Operations Inc. (Lehi, Utah).

"Extraction of keyphrases from genealogical descriptions" was invented by Yingrui Yang (San Mateo, Calif.), Nasim Sonboli (Boulder, Colo.) and Yen-Yun Yu (Murry, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid machine-learning systems and methods can be used to perform automatic keyphrase extraction from input text, such as historical records. For example, a computer-implemented method for extracting keyphrases from input text can include receiving input text having a plurality of words and identifying a set of candidate phrases from the plurality of words an...