US Patent Issued to FMR on April 1 for "Systems and methods for enhancing performance of search engines" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,590, issued on April 1, was assigned to FMR LLC (Boston).

"Systems and methods for enhancing performance of search engines" was invented by Hotaka Shiokawa (Waltham, Mass.), Hui Su (West Roxbury, Mass.) and Hamed Shahbazi (Norwood, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for enhancing performance of a search engine by using pre-existing fine-tuned machine learning models that include domain-specific knowledge. A computing device receives search results from a search engine based on a query, in which the search results include chunk identifiers and a first weight score associated with each chunk identifi...