US Patent Issued to Yext on May 6 for "Topic-based document segmentation" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,909, issued on May 6, was assigned to Yext Inc. (New York).

"Topic-based document segmentation" was invented by Allison Rossetto (New York) and Michael Misiewicz (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method to identify a document including text relating to a merchant system. The document is segmented into a set of sentences. A first machine-learning model executed by a processing device generates an initial topic segmentation corresponding to the set of sentences. A second machine-learning model is applied to the initial topic segmentation to generate a final topic segmentation corresponding to the document."

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