ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,290, issued on June 3, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hierarchical auto summary generation with multi-task learning in networking recommendations" was invented by Qixu Gong (Santa Clara, Calif.), Benjamin L Chang (Saratoga, Calif.), Qihong Shao (Clyde Hill, Wash.), Derek William Engi (Pleasant Ridge, Mich.) and Jaime Madruga Rita (Rolesville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for generating hierarchical summaries with actionable recommendations having various granularities. Specifically, the methods involve obtaining notifications related to network issues and generating meta-semantic...