ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,366, issued on June 23, was assigned to HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY (Doha, Qatar).

"Cross-domain label-adaptive stance detection" was invented by Preslav I. Nakov (Doha, Qatar), Momchil Hardalov (Doha, Qatar), Isabelle Augenstein (Doha, Qatar) and Arnav Arora (Doha, Qatar).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cross-domain label-adaptive stance detection is provided by receiving a natural language input; tokenizing the natural language input by a shared tokenizer to identify tokens in the natural language input; parsing the tokens by a plurality of domain expert encoder blocks to produce a corresponding plurality of domain encodings for the...