US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Interpreting and resolving map-related queries using a language model" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,600, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Interpreting and resolving map-related queries using a language model" was invented by Dragomir Dimitrov Yankov (Palo Alto, Calif.), Chiqun Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Antonios Karatzoglou (San Francisco) and Helen Alta Craig (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for interacting with map-related information integrates the use of a machine-trained language model. Upon submission of a query, the technique uses the machine-trained language model to assess at least one intent associated with the query. The technique then...