US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 3 for "Counting and extracting opinions in product reviews" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,777, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Counting and extracting opinions in product reviews" was invented by Christopher Malon (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Hideo Kobayashi (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for counting and extracting opinions in product reviews is provided. The method includes inputting a hypothesis opinion, a product name, and product reviews relating to a product, applying a decontextualization component to the product reviews by using the product name, applying the decontextualization component to the hypothesis opinion by using the product name, applying an entailment ...