US Patent Issued to Salesforce on April 14 for "Systems and methods for question answering with diverse knowledge sources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,377, issued on April 14, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for question answering with diverse knowledge sources" was invented by Tong Niu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shafiq Rayhan Joty (San Jose, Calif.), Yingbo Zhou (Palo Alto, Calif.), Semih Yavuz (Redwood City, Calif.), Wenting Zhao (San Francisco) and Ye Liu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for retrieval augmented generation. A neural network based language model may be provided a question as a user input. Based on the user input, semantically diverse queries may be generated fo...