ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,322, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for a reading and comprehension assistance tool" was invented by Philippe Laban (New York) and Chien-Sheng Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide system of a neural network based news reading tool. The system includes a communication interface receiving one or more text passages from data sources. The system also includes a memory storing a discord question neural model that generates a discord question according to the text passages. The system further includes processors executing proc...