US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Detecting conflicting knowledge in data sources" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,370, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting conflicting knowledge in data sources" was invented by Roy Eisenstadt (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alexander Ostrikov (Herzliya, Israel) and Alexander Tsvetkov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knowledge source is analyzed using machine learning models to detect conflicting or contradictory data in the documents of the knowledge source. The documents in a knowledge source are partitioned into non-overlapping, contiguous text segments containing a unique topic. Questions are generated for each text segment from a generativ...