ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,056, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Dialpad Inc. (San Ramon, Calif.).

"Apparatus of a knowledge graph to enhance the performance and controllability of neural ranking engines" was invented by Tim Porter (Surrey, Great Britain), Michele Sama (Lausanne, Switzerland), Christopher James Pedder (Leysin, Switzerland), Andre Da Palma (London) and Ozgun Tandiroglu (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus allows the semi-automated creation and curation of a knowledge graph based on a query-atom ER ranking engine. This apparatus cooperates with a domain expert to smoothly and semi-automatically incorporate or restructure textual...