US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois on Sept. 2 for "Efficient content extraction from unstructured dialog text" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,986, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Urbana, Ill.).

"Efficient content extraction from unstructured dialog text" was invented by Yun Huang (Champaign, Ill.) and Yiren Liu (Champaign, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to automate dialogs with community members providing reports of public safety events (e.g., crimes, medical emergencies, natural disasters) and to extract therefrom information to describe the particulars of such events across a wide range of possible event types. This includes using a first model to identify, from the community me...