ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,266, issued on March 18, was assigned to ARRIA DATA2TEXT Ltd. (Aberdeen, Great Britain).
"Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for parsing temporal expressions in a conversational data-to-text system" was invented by Rodrigo Gomes De Oliveira (London) and John William Alexander (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments provide for a temporal expression parser in a conversational data-to-text system are described herein. An example method may include receiving user query data comprising an input text string; generating, based at least in part on the input text string, a n-gram set comprising a plurality of n-gr...