US Patent Issued to NEC on April 7 for "Determining causality between factors for target object by analyzing text" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,880, issued on April 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Determining causality between factors for target object by analyzing text" was invented by Lu Feng (Beijing) and Adi Lin (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the embodiments of the present disclosure, method and device for information processing are provided. This method comprises determining a group of target factors for a target object based on an unstructured text set about the target object. Each target factor represents an aspect of the target object. This method also comprises determining a causal-outcome event pair comprising a causal event and outcome...