US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 3 for "Unsupervised method to generate annotations for natural language understanding tasks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,693, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Unsupervised method to generate annotations for natural language understanding tasks" was invented by Hany Mohamed Hassan Awadalla (Sammamish, Wash.), Subhabrata Mukherjee (Seattle) and Ahmed Awadallah (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for training a machine learning model with parallel annotations of source instances and while facilitating security of the source instances can be performed by a system that generates a coupled machine learning model from (1) a first machine learning model trained on a first set of training...