US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Merging supplemental information with the content of source material" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,945, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Merging supplemental information with the content of source material" was invented by Dong Chen (Beijing), Ming Lei Zhang (Beijing), Yuan Jie Zhang (Ningbo, China), Yin Xi Guo (Beijing) and Ting Ting Zhan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: receiving copies of notes that were originally recorded by participants, the notes corresponding to a source document. Note fragments in the received copies of notes are identified and one or more machine learning models are used t...