US Patent Issued to Walmart Apollo on Nov. 4 for "Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,104, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Walmart Apollo LLC (Bentonville, Ark.).

"Methods and apparatus for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes" was invented by Pratik Sridatt Jayarao (Pittsburgh), Arpit Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Deepa Mohan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to apparatus and methods for natural language understanding in conversational systems using machine learning processes. In some examples, a computing device receives a request that identifies textual data. The computing device applies a natural language model to the ...