US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 4 for "Learning to extract entities from conversations with neural networks" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,999, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Learning to extract entities from conversations with neural networks" was invented by Nan Du (San Jose, Calif.), Linh Mai Tran (Mountain View, Calif.), Yu-Hui Chen (Cupertino, Calif.) and Izhak Shafran (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for extracting entities from conversation transcript data. One of the methods includes obtaining a conversation transcript sequence, processing the conversation transcript sequence using a span detection neural network co...