ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,366, issued on March 17, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Development platform for facilitating the optimization of natural-language-understanding systems" was invented by Zhengyu Zhou (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing performance of a natural language understanding model is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of training sentences, each training sentence being labeled with a respective intent from a plurality of intents, at least one portion of at least some training sentences being labeled with a respective slot type from a plurality of slot types. The...