US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Graph and vector usage for automated QA system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,356, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Graph and vector usage for automated QA system" was invented by Ming Jin Chen (Ningbo, China), Yuan Li (Ningbo, China), Tong Liu (Xi'an, China), Yuan Yuan Li (Beijing) and Yuan Zhang (Ningbo, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for conversational query resolution includes receiving a query input from a user. The query input is decomposed into a plurality of tasks. A knowledge graph is queried to identify one or more relevant entities based on at least one of the plurality of tasks. A vector database is searched to identify one or mo...