ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,186, issued on June 23, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Language models for reading charts" was invented by Victor Soares Bursztyn (Chicago), Eunyee Koh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jane Elizabeth Hoffswell (Seattle) and Shunan Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. Embodiments of the present disclosure obtain a chart and a query via a user interface. An answer model generates an answer to the query based on the chart, wherein the answer model comprises a machine learning model trained based on chart data for the chart. A description model genera...