ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,888, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Schlumberger Technology Corp. (Sugar Land, Texas).
"Automatic fact extraction" was invented by Akhilesh Goyal (Pune, India) and Michael Antony Cleminson (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic fact extraction that involves tokenizing text in unstructured information to generate a token list. Parent entity rules defined for a selected domain are applied to the token list to identify a parent entity. Related entity rules that are defined for a related entity linked to the parent entity are applied to the token list to identify the related entity. The related entity is added as an extrac...