ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,820, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Sap, Sweden).

"System and method performing terminology disambiguation" was invented by Tetyana Chernenko (Heidelberg, Germany), Benjamin Schork (Wilhelmsfeld, Germany) and Marcus Danei (Plankstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Term ambiguity is resolved by referencing a terminology database. An input is received comprising the term designated as ambiguous, and a string including the term. The term is posed as a query to the terminology database containing metadata of at least one type. Query results are returned including at least two possible meanings. Sequence(s) are extrac...