ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,215, issued on July 28, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Hierarchical named entity recognition with multi-task setup" was invented by Saransh Mehta (Navi Mumbai, India), Siddhant Jain (Bangalore, India) and Pramir Sarkar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel system is described for performing hierarchical named entity recognition ("HNER") processing that includes identifying categories at different hierarchical levels for a named entity. The HNER system uses a novel architecture comprising an encoder model and a system of trained machine learning (ML) models to perform the HNER ...