US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 25 for "Machine comprehension of unstructured text" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,236,363, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine comprehension of unstructured text" was invented by Adam Trischler (Montreal), Philip Bachman (Montreal), Xingdi Yuan (Westmount, Canada), Alessandro Sordoni (Montreal) and Zheng Ye (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for providing a natural language comprehension system that employs a two-stage process for machine comprehension of text. The first stage indicates words in one or more text passages that potentially answer a question. The first stage outputs a set of candidate ans...