ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,596, issued on March 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Graph path prediction and masked language modelling joint training algorithm for language models" was invented by Tomas Feith (Zurich), Arno Schneuwly (Effretikon, Switzerland), Saeid Allahdadian (Vancouver, Canada), Matteo Casserini (Zurich) and Felix Schmidt (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment providing natural language processing (NLP), a computer generates a histogram that correctly represents a graph that represents a lexical text, and generates a token sequence encoder that is trainable and untra...