US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Semantic parsing of utterance using contractive paraphrasing" (Maryland, California, Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,670, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic parsing of utterance using contractive paraphrasing" was invented by Benjamin David Van Durme (Baltimore), Adam D. Pauls (San Francisco), Daniel Louis Klein (Orinda, Calif.), Eui Chul Shin (San Francisco), Christopher H. Lin (Bellevue, Wash.), Pengyu Chen (Union City, Calif.), Subhro Roy (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Emmanouil Antonios Platanios (Pittsburgh), Jason Michael Eisner (Baltimore), Benjamin Lev Snyder (Bellevue, Wash.) and Samuel McIntire Thomson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided f...