US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on Feb. 10 for "Method and system for entity extraction and disambiguation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,656, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (Dulles, Va.).

"Method and system for entity extraction and disambiguation" was invented by Sanika Shirwadkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daozheng Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Guillaume Le Chenadec (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ralph Rabbat (San Carlos, Calif.) and Prateeksha Uday Chandraghatgi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present teaching relates to entity extraction and disambiguation. In one example, an entity name extracted from a data source associated with a user is obtained. One or more entity types associated with the entity name are determined. One or more entity ...