ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,086, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method of natural language processing by performing semantic analysis using syntactic information, and an apparatus for the same" was invented by Dat Quoc Ngo (Plano, Texas) and Suhel Jaber (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing one or more natural language understanding semantic tasks augmented with syntactic information includes parsing a written or spoken utterance comprising a plurality of tokens into a full syntactic tree for the utterance; encoding each token in the utterance using a word encoder base...