ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,612, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Recruit Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for entity set expansion" was invented by Yutong Shao (Mountain View, Calif.), Nikita Bhutani (Mountain View, Calif.), Sajjadur Rahman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Estevam Hruschka (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to entity set expansion to associate with a text corpus. Techniques can include receiving unstructured data and a set of concepts associated with the data to determine, using a language model, a set of candidate entities in the data associated with the set of concepts, wherein the associati...