US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 27 for "Detecting offensive identifiers using machine learning" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,835, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Detecting offensive identifiers using machine learning" was invented by Gareth Neal Lewin (Burnaby, Canada) and Lena Evans (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data set including identifiers with respective acceptability labels is used to train a neural network-based model which generates acceptability scores for proposed identifiers submitted to an application. The identifiers do not include word separators. The model includes a character-level embedding layer. Using a trained version of the model, an acceptability score is obtained for a propose...