US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on May 27 for "Answer generating device, answer learning device, answer generating method, and answer generating program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,659, issued on May 27, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Answer generating device, answer learning device, answer generating method, and answer generating program" was invented by Kosuke Nishida (Tokyo), Atsushi Otsuka (Tokyo), Kyosuke Nishida (Tokyo), Hisako Asano (Tokyo), Junji Tomita (Tokyo) and Itsumi Saito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoding unit transforms a piece of text divided into a plurality of spans that are subdivided units of the piece of text and a question which have been input into a vector representation sequence representing a meaning of a span and the question based on th...