ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,682, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Method and system for generating longform technical question and answer dataset" was invented by Prabir Mallick (Kolkata, India), Samiran Pal (Kolkata, India), Avinash Kumar Singh (Pune, India), Anumita Dasgupta (Kolkata, India), Soham Datta (Kolkata, India), Kaamraan Khan (Hyderabad, India), Tapas Nayak (Kolkata, India), Indrajit Bhattacharya (Kolkata, India) and Girish Keshav Palshikar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conventional Question and Answer (QA) datasets are created for generating factoid questions only and the present di...