ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,891, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Systems and methods for utilizing a machine learning model for sentence boundary detection" was invented by Miruna Jayakrishnasamy (Vellore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive text data, may extract phrases from the text data, and may calculate question scores for the phrases. The device may determine whether the phrases are associated with single answers or multiple answers, may calculate, single answer scores for the phrases associated with the single answers, and may calculate multiple answer scores for the phra...