US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 24 for "Techniques for poll intention detection and poll creation" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,606, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for poll intention detection and poll creation" was invented by Bhargavkumar Kanubhai Patel (Gujarat, India) and Vipin Gupta (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for using supervised machine learning to determine whether a content posting posted to a feed of an online service, has been posted with the intent that the content posting is a poll or survey. Upon making a determination that a content posting is or includes a poll, the content posting is further analyzed to identify within the...