US Patent Issued to NEC on June 23 for "Method and system for a semantic textual similarity search" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,205, issued on June 23, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method and system for a semantic textual similarity search" was invented by Na Gong (Heidelberg, Germany), Carolin Lawrence (Heidelberg, Germany) and Timo Sztyler (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a semantic textual similarity search between a target document and a set of source documents includes: selecting target textual data from the target document; identifying and classifying, name entities for each textual sequence of the target textual data; generating, a semantic textual similarity model and using the semantic textual similari...