ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,837, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Artificial intelligence based metadata semantic enrichment" was invented by Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury (Ardsley, N.Y.), Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Nandana Sampath Mihindukulasooriya (Sunnyside, N.Y.), Michael Robert Glass (Bayonne, N.J.), Sarthak Dash (Jersey City, N.J.), Sugato Bagchi (White Plains, N.Y.) and Gaetano Rossiello (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for automatically generating semantical enhanced metadata for a structured data structure. Multi-task machine learning training...