ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,877, issued on March 24, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Grouping and linking facts from text to remove ambiguity using knowledge graphs" was invented by Kiril Gashteovski (Heidelberg, Germany), Gorjan Radevski (Heidelberg, Germany), Carolin Lawrence (Heidelberg, Germany) and Goran Glavas (Wuerzburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for disambiguating textual facts by linking the textual facts to a reference knowledge graph and introducing entities and relations for the textual facts includes ranking the textual facts from textual data. Each of the textual facts is in a triple data structure comprising a subject, ...