US Patent Issued to PayPal on Sept. 16 for "Semantic search architecture for information retrieval with natural language queries" (Singaporean, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,238, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Semantic search architecture for information retrieval with natural language queries" was invented by Soujanya Lanka (Singapore) and Zehong Ma (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to operating, by a computer system, a semantic search engine to retrieve records from a data store. The technique includes training, by the computer system using a plurality of training data sets that include queries and corresponding records, a retrieval model for use in the semantic search engine. The technique may further include generating, b...