US Patent Issued to Google on March 11 for "Multi source extraction and scoring of short query answers" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,529, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Multi source extraction and scoring of short query answers" was invented by Preyas Dalsukhbhai Popat (Mountain View, Calif.), Gaurav Bhaskar Gite (Zurich), John Blitzer (Mountain View, Calif.), Jayant Madhavan (San Francisco) and Aliaksei Severyn (Lachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques of generating short answers for queries by a search engine include performing a training operation on a corpus of training data to train the score prediction engine, the corpus of training data including candidate passages providing short answers for d...