ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,321, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for semantic searching of abbreviated terms using telemetry data-trained neural networks" was invented by Laurent Boue (Petah Tikva, Israel), Kiran Rama (Bangalore, India) and Dayananda Ubrangala (Kasaragod, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing telemetry data associated with a target abbreviated term and a plurality of expanded terms. A plurality of probabilistic tuples are generated from the telemetry data associated with the target abbreviated term. A...