US Patent Issued to Optum on June 2 for "Machine learning techniques for generating domain-aware query expansions" (California, New Jersey, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,670, issued on June 2, was assigned to Optum Inc. (Minnetonka, Minn.).

"Machine learning techniques for generating domain-aware query expansions" was invented by Ramin Anushiravani (San Carlos, Calif.), Micah David Ketola (Jersey City, N.J.), Prerna Kaul (Minneapolis), Cem Unsal (Alameda, Calif.) and Chun-Chu Andrew Cheng (Artesia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for generating domain-specific queries that are semantically similar to a search query by spell-correcting and tokenizing a search q...