ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,348, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Training data augmentation using gazetteers and perturbations to facilitate training named entity recognition models" was invented by Omid Mohamad Nezami (Sydney), Shivashankar Subramanian (Melbourne, Australia), Thanh Tien Vu (Herston, Australia), Tuyen Quang Pham (Springvale, Australia), Budhaditya Saha (Sydney), Aashna Devang Kanuga (Foster City, Calif.) and Shubham Pawankumar Shah (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for augmenting training data using gazetteers and perturbations to facilitate tra...