ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,417, issued on June 30, was assigned to National University of Defense Technology (Changsha, China).

"Method and device for denoising causal relation extraction based on multi-task collaborative learning" was invented by Wanyu Chen (Changsha, China), Yijia Zhang (Changsha, China), Haoen Huang (Changsha, China), Chaofan Liu (Changsha, China) and Fei Cai (Changsha, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a causal relation extraction method, specifically relating to a method and a device for denoising causal relation extraction based on multi-task collaborative learning. The method includes: inputting a text to be processed in...