US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 20 for "Automated enrichment of entity descriptions in unstructured text" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,388, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated enrichment of entity descriptions in unstructured text" was invented by Marcos Martinez Galindo (Dublin), Leopold Fuchs (Stuttgart, Germany), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin) and Marco Luca Sbodio (Castaheany, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically enriching the descriptions of an entity mentioned in a sentence corpus includes generating multiple enriched descriptions corresponding to a label of the entity. Each of the multiple enriched descriptions is ranked...