US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on July 28 for "Systems for context-aware named entity recognition" (Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,216, issued on July 28, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Systems for context-aware named entity recognition" was invented by Alexandru Mocanu (Bucharest, Romania), Daniel Voinea (Vladiceasca, Romania) and Silviu Paun (Craiova, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To perform a Named Entity Recognition (NER) operation that accounts for semantic relationships between entity and document text while remaining scalable, entity text and text from portions of documents are encoded separately, in some cases using different encoders such as when the document text also includes layout information. A cross-attention module ...