ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,399, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Date and time feature identification" was invented by Satoshi Masuda (Nerima-ku, Japan), Takaaki Tateishi (Yamato, Japan) and Toshihiro Takahashi (Nakano-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for text processing include building a knowledge base using column names and associated functions from a code base. Classifiers are trained using the knowledge base and are cross-validated to determine accuracy scores. Text is processed using a selected classifier having a highest accuracy score from the classifiers to determin...