ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,834, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Text summarization with emotion conditioning" was invented by Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India), Sridevi Kannan (Chennai, India) and Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program, and computer system are provided for text summarization that maintains emotional content. Data corresponding to text to be summarized and a target emotion to be maintained in the text to be summarized is received. The target emotion is encoded as an emotion probability vecto...