ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,039, issued on April 29, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Applied artificial intelligence technology for adaptively classifying sentences based on the concepts they express to improve natural language understanding" was invented by Michael Justin Smathers (Chicago), Daniel Joseph Platt (Chicago), Nathan D. Nichols (Chicago) and Jared Lorince (Skokie, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is computer technology that provides adaptive mechanisms for learning concepts that are expressed by natural language sentences, and then applies this learning to appropriately classify new natural language sentences wi...