US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Nov. 11 for "Multi-task self-training for character gender identification" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,889, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-task self-training for character gender identification" was invented by Dian Yu (Bellevue, Wash.), Linfeng Song (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Dong Yu (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus that identifies one or more characters within a text; determines one or more informative sections within the text, the one or more informative sections providing information regarding a gender of the one or more characters within the text; selects a most informative section from the one or more informative sections; extracts unlabeled...