ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,242, issued on July 21, was assigned to BOLD Ltd. (Hamilton, Bermuda).

"Enhanced entity recognition services for classifying user intents" was invented by Martin Horst (Seattle), Isabella Barbier (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vaibhav Mahajan (Noida, India), Vikrant Verma (Noida, India), Yashik Vohra (Delhi, India) and Vishwajeet Samal (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method performing entity recognition to classify user inputs for resolving user intent. In aspects, the method includes receiving user input comprising a text string associated, the user input associated with a web-based app...