US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Aug. 12 for "Emoji sanitization for natural language model processing" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,056, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Emoji sanitization for natural language model processing" was invented by Nathan Wolfe (Silver Spring, Md.) and Andy Luo (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain a natural language input including an emoji. The device may identify one or more appearance modifiers associated with the emoji. The device may generate a token associated with the emoji that removes the one or more appearance modifiers, wherein the token is associated with multiple emojis including the emoji, and wherein the token is a modified co...