US Patent Issued to Educational Testing Service on May 13 for "NLP-guided video thin-slicing for automated scoring of non-cognitive, behavioral performance tasks" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,244, issued on May 13, was assigned to Educational Testing Service (Princeton, N.J.).

"NLP-guided video thin-slicing for automated scoring of non-cognitive, behavioral performance tasks" was invented by Chee Wee Leong (Pennington, N.J.), Xianyang Chen (Princeton, N.J.), Vinay K. Basheerabad (Princeton, N.J.), Chong Min Lee (Pennington, N.J.) and Patrick D. Houghton (Titusville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received that encapsulates a video of a subject performing a task. This video is used to generate a transcript using an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system. A plurality of text segments are generated from the t...