ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,058, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for reducing input to and increasing processing speeds of natural language processing models" was invented by Prakash Ranganathan (Gingee, India) and Miruna Jayakrishnasamy (Vellore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may generate first scores for sentences of text based on a cumulative frequency of words in each sentence, may generate second scores for the sentences based on a cumulative frequency of domain entities in each sentence, and may generate third scores for the sentences based on a sentiment anal...