US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Knowledge base construction" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,504, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Knowledge base construction" was invented by John Michael Winn (Cambridge, Great Britain), John Guiver (Saffron Walden, Great Britain), Samuel Alexander Webster (Cambridge, Great Britain), Yordan Kirilov Zaykov (Cambridge, Great Britain), Maciej Kukla (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Daniel Fabian (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples there is a knowledge base construction and/or maintenance system for use with a probabilistic knowledge base. The system has a probabilistic generative model comprising a pr...