ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,152, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Headword extraction method and apparatus, device, and storage medium" was invented by Bolun Cai (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoyi Jia (Shenzhen, China), Haoyu Li (Shenzhen, China), Yugeng Lin (Shenzhen, China), Dianping Xu (Shenzhen, China), Huajie Huang (Shenzhen, China), Chen Ran (Shenzhen, China), Yike Liu (Shenzhen, China), Lijian Mei (Shenzhen, China), Zhikang Tan (Shenzhen, China), Yanhua Cheng (Shenzhen, China), Jinchang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Minhui Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Mei Jiang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodime...