ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,978, issued on March 24, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Knowledge-driven and self-supervised system for question-answering" was invented by Alessandro Oltramari (Pittsburgh), Jonathan Francis (Pittsburgh), Kaixin Ma (Pittsburgh) and Filip Ilievski (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method relates to natural language processing. The computer-implemented system and method are configured to obtain a current data structure from a global knowledge graph, which comprises various knowledge graphs. The current data structure includes a current head element, a cu...