US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Online question answering, using reading comprehension with an ensemble of models" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,183, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Online question answering, using reading comprehension with an ensemble of models" was invented by Anthony Ferritto (Somers, N.Y.), Radu Florian (Danbury, Conn.), James William Murdock IV (Amawalk, N.Y.) and Avirup Sil (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Receive a question via a graphical user interface (GUI), obtain a passage of text potentially relevant to the question, and receive, via the GUI, a selection of a number of question-answering models to be ensembled. Produce a plurality of answers to the question by runni...