US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 3 for "Generating context-based spell corrections of entity names" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,805, issued on March 3, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generating context-based spell corrections of entity names" was invented by Lawrence J. Brunsman (Mountain View, Calif.), Matthieu Devin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Uri N. Lerner (Los Altos, Calif.) and Simon Tong (Mountain View, Calif.).

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 correcting entity names. One method includes receiving texts and deriving a plurality of name-context pairs from the texts. The method further includes calculating a context consistency measure for...