US Patent Issued to Tata Consultancy Services on March 4 for "Extraction of tasks from documents using weakly supervision" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,977, issued on March 4, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Extraction of tasks from documents using weakly supervision" was invented by Sachin Sharad Pawar (Pune, India), Girish Keshav Palshikar (Pune, India) and Anindita Sinha Banerjee (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to extraction of tasks from documents based on a weakly supervised classification technique, wherein extraction of tasks is identification of mentions of tasks in a document. There are several prior arts addressing the problem of extraction of events, however due to crucial distinctions between events-tas...