ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,847, issued on April 22, was assigned to NAVER Corp. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Method and system for extraction and annotation using semantic attribute paths" was invented by Salah Ait-Mokhtar (Montbonnot-Saint-Martin, France), Caroline Brun (Grenoble, France) and Agnes Sandor (Meylan, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An annotation assistant for semi-automatic creation of annotated machine learning training data comprises a graphical annotation interface provider that provides a graphical annotation interface for displaying a sequence of tokens to be annotated and allowing a span selection by a user. An automatic span tagger c...