ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,934, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Multi-task model with context masking" was invented by Poorya Zaremoodi (Melbourne, Australia), Duy Vu (Melbourne, Australia), Nagaraj N. Bhat (Bengaluru, India), Srijon Sarkar (Bengaluru, India), Varsha Kuppur Rajendra (Bellevue, Wash.), Thanh Long Duong (Melbourne, Australia), Mark Edward Johnson (Sydney), Pramir Sarkar (Bengaluru, India) and Shahid Reza (Redwood Shores, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes accessing document including sentences, document being associated with configuration flag indicating whether ABSA, S...