US Patent Issued to HOSEO UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION, LIVIN AI on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and method for optimized search results using document and passage-level integration" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,694, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HOSEO UNIVERSITY ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Asan-si, South Korea) and LIVIN AI INC. (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

"Apparatus and method for optimized search results using document and passage-level integration" was invented by Sung-Bum Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Suehyun Chang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for enhancing search results by segmenting documents into smaller passages and utilizing those passages as the search unit. This method integrates the passage rankings from two search models to produce a new document ranking and arranges the...