ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,753, issued on March 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bridging semantics between words and definitions via aligning word sense inventories" was invented by Wenlin Yao (Bellevue, Wash.), Xiaoman Pan (Bellevue, Wash.), Lifeng Jin (Bellevue, Wash.), Jianshu Chen (Woodinville, Wash.), Dian Yu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Dong Yu (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform generating one or more aligned inventories, wherein the one or more aligned inventories are generated using one or more w...