ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,034, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accuracy evaluation of concept expansion systems" was invented by Marco Luca Sbodio (Dublin), Natalia Mulligan (Dublin) and Joao H. Bettencourt-Silva (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Accuracy evaluation of concept expansion systems is provided. A returned set of related concepts corresponding to a test set of concepts is received from a concept expansion system. A comparison is performed between an expected set of concepts and the returned set of related concepts corresponding to the test set of concepts to identify intersection. An a...