ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,933, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Context-aware entity linking for knowledge graphs to support decision making" was invented by David Friede (Heidelberg, Germany) and Kiril Gashteovski (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning model includes a context transformer and a decision head. The context transformer is a neural network of self-attention layers. The model makes a link prediction for a query embedding. Input embeddings are received at inputs of the context transformer. The input embeddings have: a query embedding set, the query embedding set comprising a subject embedding, ...