ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,762, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bast Inc. (Denver).

"Cross-domain ontology integration system" was invented by Craig Trim (Murfreesboro, Tenn.), Janice Cha (Redwood City, Calif.), Mary Rudden (Denver) and Thanh Chi Lam (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided for integrating and managing cross-domain ontologies in explainable artificial intelligence environments. The system features an ontology integration module that maintains concurrent domain-specific ontologies while establishing cross-domain relationships using semantic similarity algorithms, mapping concepts across domains. A relati...