US Patent Issued to Home Depot Product Authority on March 25 for "Named entity recognition in search queries" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,928, issued on March 25, was assigned to Home Depot Product Authority LLC (Atlanta).

"Named entity recognition in search queries" was invented by Xiang Cheng (Atlanta), Mitchell Bowden (Irving, Texas), Priyanka Goyal (Atlanta) and Bhushan Ramesh Bhange (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Named Entity Recognition (NER) in a user search query in a real-time search engine may be achieved by training a machine learning algorithm to create a trained model. The trained model may be configured to receive a user search query as input and to recognize and output zero or more named entities in the search query. The training may incl...