US Patent Issued to Smart Information Flow Technologies on May 19 for "Natural language processing for identifying bias in a span of text" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,670, issued on May 19, was assigned to Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Natural language processing for identifying bias in a span of text" was invented by Scott Friedman (Minneapolis), Vasanth Sarathy (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Sara Friedman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing machine accesses text from a record. The computing machine identifies, using a natural language processing engine, an entity mapped to a first span of the text. The first span includes a contiguous sequence of one or more words or subwords in the text. The computing machine determines a bias category for the entity. The b...