US Patent Issued to International Business Machines, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on Aug. 5 for "Complementary evidence identification in natural language inference" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,343, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.) and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, N.Y.).

"Complementary evidence identification in natural language inference" was invented by Mo Yu (White Plains, N.Y.), Li Zhang (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Hui Su (West Roxbury, Mass.), Shiyu Chang (Elmsford, N.Y.), Ming Tan (Malden, Mass.) and Xiangyang Mou (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for complementary evidence identification in natural language inference. A given question is obtained and a set of N passages is obtained from a database. A probability is determined...