US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Jan. 13 for "System and method for question answering" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,794, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"System and method for question answering" was invented by Kanyao Han (Champaign, Ill.), Komal Arvind Dhuri (Milpitas, Calif.), Deepa Mohan (Los Altos, Calif.) and Shankara Bhargava (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including determining respective training data for each of query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method further can include training each of the query-type-specific answer retrieval modules. The method additionally can include determining a query type of a query from a user device for a user. The method a...