US Patent Issued to Smart Information Flow Technologies on Dec. 9 for "Natural language processing for bias identification" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,751, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Natural language processing for bias identification" was invented by Scott Friedman (Minneapolis), Vasanth Sarathy (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Sara Friedman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing machine accesses text from a record. The computing machine identifies, using a natural language processing engine, an entity mapped to a first span of the text. The first span includes a contiguous sequence of one or more words or subwords in the text. The computing machine determines a bias category for the entity. The bias category is...