ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,976, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatically improving data annotations by processing annotation properties and user feedback" was invented by Shanmukha Chaitanya Guttula (Bengaluru, India), Nitin Gupta (New Delhi), Pranay Kumar Lohia (Bangalore, India) and Hima Patel (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for automatically improving data annotations by processing annotation properties and user feedback are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes obtaining data annotation pairs, each comprising an in...