ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,644, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Text augmentation of a minority class in a text classification problem" was invented by Kumar Abhishek (Khariar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is provided for augmenting text of a small class for text classification. An imbalanced dataset is received. A small class is identified. The small class includes initial text records in the imbalanced dataset. A balanced dataset is generated from the imbalanced dataset by augmenting the initial text records by using weighted word scores indicating respective measures of importance of words in classes in the i...