US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Extracting and classifying entities from digital content items" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,374, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Extracting and classifying entities from digital content items" was invented by Mingyang Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Paul Pangilinan Del Villar (Bothell, Wash.), Xiaofei Zeng (Redmond, Wash.) and Robin Abraham (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to extracting entities from a collection of digital content items based on text from within the digital content items. For example, the present disclosure describes a customizable entity extraction system that utilizes a number of models to extract entities, rank en...