ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,738, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Natural language processing to extract skills characterization" was invented by Lei Xu (Shanghai) and Deng Feng Wan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples are directed to systems and methods for characterizing natural language text units. A plurality of text units may be used to train a bidirectional model. A bidirectional model may be applied to a set of annotated text units to generate a plurality of span context vectors. The plurality of span context vectors may be used to train a span prediction model. The span prediction model may be applied ...