ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,224, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Classifying data objects" was invented by Gregory Sean Corrado (San Francisco), Tomas Mikolov (Jersey City, N.J.), Samuel Bengio (Los Altos, Calif.), Yoram Singer (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jonathon Shlens (San Francisco), Andrea L. Frome (Oakland, Calif.), Jeffrey Adgate Dean (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mohammad Norouzi (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for classifying data objects. One of the methods includes obtaining data that associates each term in...