ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,702, issued on June 3, was assigned to WALMART APOLLO LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Automatically augmenting and labeling conversational data for training machine learning models" was invented by Deepa Mohan (Los Altos, Calif.), Komal Arvind Dhuri (San Jose, Calif.), Simral Chaudhary (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jorge Adrian Sanchez Castro (Long Island City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include generating training data for an intent classification machin...