US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Resource conservation based on query complexity" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,974, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Resource conservation based on query complexity" was invented by Katherine Irene Cook (Seattle), Hui Liu (Kenmore, Wash.), Ashutosh Devendrakumar Adhikari (Toronto), Payal Bajaj (Redmond, Wash.) and Bradley Moore Abrams (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for resource conservation based on query complexity are disclosed. An input query is received (e.g., via a chat interface) and provided to a response classifier, which is a machine-learning classifier that is trained to classify input queries with complexity ...