ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,667, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Systems and methods for automated information retrieval" was invented by Chih Chien Huang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jianxiong Dong (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated information retrieval system includes a processor coupled to a communications interface and a non-transitory memory. The processor is configured to read instructions from the non-transitory memory to cause the system to perform operations comprising receiving a term including a plurality of words and generating a plurality of word vectors corresponding to th...