US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN GROUP on April 15 for "Data augmentation system, data augmentation method, and information storage medium" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,121, issued on April 15, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Data augmentation system, data augmentation method, and information storage medium" was invented by Chen Zhao (Tokyo), Yuki Nakayama (Tokyo) and Koji Murakami (Eastchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data augmentation system including at least one processor configured to: acquire a first search query including a first named entity, which was actually input in a search executed in a past; execute training of a first model that outputs a second search query including a virtual second named entity, which is different from the first named entity, ...