ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,801, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Blending graph predictions" was invented by Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Yufang Hou (Dublin), Young-Suk Lee (Mahopac, N.Y.), Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.), Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Vanessa Lopez Garcia (Dublin) and Ramon Fernandez Astudillo (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Software that performs the following operations: (i) receiving a set of graph predictions corresponding to an input text, where graph predictions of the set of graph predictions are generated by different...