ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,864, issued on June 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Multi-hop search for entity relationships" was invented by Aaron Michael Taylor (Cambridge, Mass.) and Henry Forrest Leanna Wallace (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An unsupervised multi-hop search across a corpus of documents in a database or other data resource permits the identification of relationships between two entities mentioned in the corpus in cases where the two entities are not co-mentioned within any documents in the corpus (or not mentioned within document(s) with sufficient frequency or proximity to infer the relationship). The sear...