ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,252, issued on June 17, was assigned to Verint Americas Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).
"Automated system and method to prioritize language model and ontology expansion and pruning" was invented by Ian Roy Beaver (Spokane, Wash.) and Christopher James Jeffs (Roswell, Ga.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for updating computerized language models is provided that automatically adds or deletes terms from the language model to capture trending events or products, while maximizing computer efficiencies by deleting terms that are no longer trending and use of knowledge bases, machine learning model training and evaluation corpora...