ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,040, issued on July 15, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Question answering method for query information, and related apparatus" was invented by Hao Chen (Beijing), Runmei Zhao (Beijing) and Jizhou Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a question answering method and apparatus for query information. The method may include: receiving query information input by a user, and analyzing a query target comprised in the query information; recalling candidate answers from a pre-generated knowledge graph based on the query target, where the knowledge graph is c...