ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,171, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context disambiguation using deep neural networks" was invented by Rodrigo Reis Alves (Campinas, Brazil), Angelo Moore (Dunboyne, Ireland), Valdir Salustino Guimaraes (Americana, Brazil), Daniela Arrigoni (Seregno, Italy) and Vasanthi M. Gopal (Plainsboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process for updating an electronic document includes the following operations. Using a preprocessor, preprocessing is performed on the electronic document to generate a computer data structure. The computer data structure is evalu...