US Patent Issued to Siemens on March 18 for "Method and system for automated column type annotation" (German, Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,996, issued on March 18, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Method and system for automated column type annotation" was invented by Martin Ringsquandl (Raubling, Germany), Mitchell Joblin (Surrey, Canada), Aneta Koleva (Munich) and Swathi Shyam Sunder (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solution for automated column type annotation maps each column contained in a table to a column annotation class. A pre-processor transforms the table into a numerical tensor representation by outputting a sequence of cell tokens for each cell in the table. A table encoder encodes the sequences of cell tokens and a column annotation...