US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 15 for "Semantic text segmentation based on topic recognition" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,547, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic text segmentation based on topic recognition" was invented by Mattan Serry (Herzliya, Israel) and Oron Nir (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for semantic temporal segmentation based on topic recognition are disclosed. Text classification and segmentation may be used to index media content for subsequent searches. The method may include using a text classification model to semantically analyze sentences in a text file (such as a transcript) to determine topics with which sentences are associated. ...