US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 30 for "Character string pattern matching using machine learning" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,736, issued on June 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Character string pattern matching using machine learning" was invented by Richard Patrick Lewis (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Anna Lim Murphy (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed herein for determining character strings that share a pattern, even though the pattern is not necessarily known. In particular, character strings of a plurality of character strings are pairwise compared to one or more other character strings of the plurality by a trained model. Each char...