ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,923, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning of keywords" was invented by Gopal Bhageria (Rajarhat, India), Siddharth Saraya (Raniganj, India), Rajesh Kumar Saxena (Kopri Colony, India) and Anindya Ghosh (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and a system where a processor(s), obtains content from a meeting hosting system during a pre-defined interval. The processor(s) parses the textual content to identify potential keywords. The processor(s) iteratively cognitively analyzes the potential keywords to determine which poten...