ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,873, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"System and method for short text matching" was invented by Aleksandr Kim (London), Rineke van Noort (London), Yuting Lu (London) and Ben Yi (Rhodes, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A short text matching system and method includes pre-generated dictionary of n-gram tokens having a selected length and corresponding embeddings produced by a fine-tuned transformer model and further includes a one-layer transformer model for inference. The dictionary is produced by fine-tuning a pretrained transformer model based on a domain specific short text traini...