ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,168, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Retrieval of novel keywords for search" was invented by Deepak Saini (Bellevue, Wash.), Jian Jiao (Bellevue, Wash.), Sachin Yadav (Delhi, India), Bhawna Paliwal (Haryana, India), Anirudh Buvanesh (Mumbai, India) and Manik Varma (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system obtains a novel keyword from a keyword database comprising a plurality of keywords. The computing system provides the novel keyword as input into an encoder and obtains a textual embedding of the novel keyword. The computing system identifies classifiers for...