ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,368, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Human guided text attention mechanism" was invented by Prattyush Mangal (London) and Lamogha Chiazor (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor that executes computer executable components stored in a memory. The computer executable components include a segmentation component that segments a prompt into select groups as a function of saliency estimates. The computer executable components further include a ranking component that assigns a rank to at least one of the groups, and a search component...