ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,620, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Intent-based task representation learning using weak supervision" was invented by Oriana Riva (Redmond, Wash.), Michael Gamon (Seattle), Sujay Kumar Jauhar (Kirkland, Wash.), Mei Yang (Redmond, Wash.), Sri Raghu Malireddi (Vancouver, Canada), Timothy C. Franklin (Seattle) and Naoki Otani (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described that are generally directed to generating a general task embedding representing task information. In examples, the generated task embedding may include predicted task information ...