ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,003, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Self improving annotation quality on diverse and multi-disciplinary content" was invented by Pierpaolo Tommasi (Dublin), Charles Arthur Jochim (Dublin), Joao H Bettencourt-Silva (Dublin) and Alessandra Pascale (Phoenix Park Racecourse, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content can be dynamically associated to an annotator based on machine learning of annotator expertise and dynamically maintaining a set of labels and relationships among the labels. A probable group of labels associated with the content can be determined by a first mach...