ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,327, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Answer generation using machine reading comprehension and supported decision trees" was invented by Boris Galitsky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein are directed to generating an answer to an input query using machine reading comprehension techniques and a lattice of supported decision trees. A supported decision tree can be generated from the various decision chains (e.g., a sequence of elements comprising a premise and a decision connected by rhetorical relationships), where t...