US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Jan. 13 for "Efficient hybrid text normalization" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,615, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Efficient hybrid text normalization" was invented by Jia Cui (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices to efficiently normalize text by processing inputted text based on a text normalization model that includes processing the input text in a first stage including a statistical model as a first output, processing the first output in a second stage including a rule based model as a normalized text, and outputting the normalized text."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2022, under Application No. 17...