US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 20 for "Machine reading comprehension system for answering queries related to a document" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,362, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine reading comprehension system for answering queries related to a document" was invented by Mahmoud Adada (Montreal), Andrew James McNamara (Cambridge, Canada), Kaheer Suleman (Cambridge, Canada), Xihui Lin (Montreal) and En Hui Zhuang (Longueuil, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine reading comprehension system (MRCS) can analyze a larger-sized document that includes multiple pages to predict an answer to a query. For example, the document can have two, five, tens, or hundreds of pages. The MRCS divides the document into mu...