ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,511, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Data.ai Inc. (San Francisco).

"Automated taxonomy classification system" was invented by Melania Calinescu (San Francisco), Xuexin Ren (Millbrae, Calif.) and Han Liu (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A taxonomy classification system assigns taxonomy labels to content items of an online system. To assign the taxonomy labels, the taxonomy classification system applies one or more taxonomy model to the content items to determine scores or probabilities that a particular label applies to the content item. Each taxonomy model includes multiple sub-models. Each sub-model cor...