US Patent Issued to Educational Testing Service on Feb. 10 for "Systems and methods for modeling in-the-moment lexical experience for tracking oral reading fluency" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,587, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Educational Testing Service (Princeton, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for modeling in-the-moment lexical experience for tracking oral reading fluency" was invented by Beata Beigman Klebanov (Hopewell, N.J.) and Michael Suhan (Princeton, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for modeling lexical experience for tracking of oral reading fluency. In embodiments, a background corpus and a text are received. A reading passage is selected from the text. A surprisal model is generated based on the background corpus and a portion of the text preceding the reading passage. An...