US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Summarization for attention management and recall" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,283, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Summarization for attention management and recall" was invented by Justin David Weisz (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Kristina Marie Brimijoin (Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Stephanie Houde (Belmont, Mass.) and Michael Muller (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach for assisting a user to remain focused on a task, a processor collects a plurality of information regarding one or more digital activities of a user. A processor tokenizes the plurality of information into one or more vectorized embeddings. Responsive to determining that the ...