ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,165, issued on July 14, was assigned to TALENT UNLtd. ONLINE SERVICES PRIVATE Ltd. (Delhi, India).

"Method and system for character-to-character modeling for word suggestion and auto-correction" was invented by Ankit Prasad (Jamshedpur, India), Rahul Prasad (Gurugram, India), Achyut Saxena (Hathras, India) and Siddharth Agarwal (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for character-to-character modeling for next-word prediction and auto correction are provided. The method is based on character-to-character modeling. The method envisages the use of an edit distance and a hash table for creating valid candid...