ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,644, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MASHANG CONSUMER FINANCE Co. LTD. (Chongqing, China).
"Text categorization method and apparatus" was invented by Changlin Li (Chongqing, China), Bing Xiao (Chongqing, China), Lei Cao (Chongqing, China) and Qishuai Luo (Chongqing, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present application provides a text categorization method and apparatus, after obtaining a first text set, performing multiple clustering on the texts in the plurality of text pairs, and obtaining a second text set in each clustering; and for each text pair, calculating a clustering probability that all the texts ...