ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,875, issued on March 24, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Device and method for processing temporal expressions from unstructured texts for filling a knowledge database" was invented by Lukas Lange (Pforzheim, Germany), Jannik Stroetgen (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Heike Adel-Vu (Renningen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and device for processing temporal expressions from unstructured texts for filling a knowledge database. A temporal expression in a text is determined. A type of the temporal expression is determined as a function of the text. The temporal expression and the type are mapped on a ...