US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Jan. 28 for "Estimating output confidence for black-box API" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,838, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Estimating output confidence for black-box API" was invented by Yohei Ikawa (Kanagawa-ken, Japan), Issei Yoshida (Setagaya-ku, Japan), Sachiko Yoshihama (Kawasaki, Japan), Miki Ishikawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Kohichi Kamijoh (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is provided for estimating output confidence of a black box Application Programming Interface (API). The method includes generating paraphrases for an input text. The method further includes calculating a distance between the input text and eac...