ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,893, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Pryon Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Question-answering system for answering relational questions by utilizing two paths where at least one path uses BERT model" was invented by Ellen Eide Kislal (Leawood, Kan.), David Nahamoo (Great Neck, N.Y.), Vaibhava Goel (Chappaqua, N.Y.), Etienne Marcheret (White Plains, N.Y.), Steven John Rennie (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Chul Sung (Fort Lee, N.J.) and Marie Wenzel Meteer (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A question-answering system that receive a natural-language question includes a database to provide a basis for that answer and a structured-que...