ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,046, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intent classification enhancement through training data augmentation" was invented by Zvi Kons (Yoqneam Ilit, Israel) and Aharon Satt (Kiryat Tivon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product enhance an intent classifier through training data augmentation. The method includes selecting a target sample from a plurality of samples. The method also includes determining an ambiguity level for the target sample based on confidence scores of at least two intent labels asso...