ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,387, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Learneo Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).
"Auto-solving multiple-choice questions" was invented by Saurabh S. Khanwalkar (San Mateo, Calif.), John Zhu (San Mateo, Calif.), Alok Goel (Redwood City, Calif.), Johnson J. D'Souza (San Francisco) and Einar Froyen (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automated solving of multiple-choice questions includes receiving a question and a set of answer options. It further includes performing a search for contextual passages pertaining to the question and the set of answer options. It further includes providing the question, the set of answer options, a...