US Patent Issued to SOCO on Dec. 2 for "Question answering retrieval via sparse transformer matching" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,004, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SOCO Inc. (Pittsburgh).

"Question answering retrieval via sparse transformer matching" was invented by Tiancheng Zhao (Pittsburgh) and Kyusong Lee (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods involving SPARTA (Sparse Transformer Matching) are disclosed. Embodiments may relate to scalable and transferable retrieval methods for question answering."

The patent was filed on Oct. 19, 2020, under Application No. 17/073,630.

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