ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,833, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System of and method for automatically detecting sarcasm of a batch of text" was invented by Ramya Akula (Orlando, Fla.) and Ivan Garibay (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described, herein, relates to a system and method of accurately and efficiently detecting a tone of a batch of text that achieves both high performance and interpretability by leveraging a multi-head self-attention architecture. The presence of a tone in a batch of text provides a challenge to the performance of a sentiment analysis, since th...