US Patent Issued to NEC on July 1 for "Transformer assisted joint entity and relation extraction" (New Jersey, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,657, issued on July 1, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transformer assisted joint entity and relation extraction" was invented by Xiao Yu (Princeton, N.J.), Yanchi Liu (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Haifeng Chen (West Windsor, N.J.) and Yufei Li (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for adapting a pretrained language model to perform cybersecurity-specific named entity recognition and relation extraction. The method includes introducing a pretrained language model and a corpus of security text to a model adaptor, and generating a fine-tuned language model through unsupervised training utilizing the se...