ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,313, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Ensemble scoring system for a natural language understanding (NLU) framework" was invented by Phani Bhushan Kumar Nivarthi (Fremont, Calif.), Edwin Sapugay (Foster City, Calif.) and Omer Anil Turkkan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language understanding (NLU) framework includes an ensemble scoring system designed to receive indicators determined by various systems of the NLU framework when inferencing a user utterance. The ensemble scoring system uses the received indicators, along with a set of ensemble scoring weights, to ...