ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,365, issued on July 21, was assigned to TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Enhanced named entity recognition (NER) using custombuilt regular expression (REGEX) matcher and heuristic entity ruler" was invented by Anantha Desik Puranam Hosudurg (Hyderabad, India), Sumiran Naman (Pune, India), Ashim Roy (Pune, India) and Nikhil Girish Patwardhan (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pre-trained models for Named Entity Recognition (NER) come with static NE classes, limited in number, and remain same irrespective of domain of the input text. Thus, domain specific training is required. Embodiments of the present disclos...