ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,478, issued on March 17, was assigned to Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH (Zug, Switzerland).

"Generating and modifying ontologies for machine learning models" was invented by Joel M. Hron II (The Woodlands, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a machine learning system that involves obtaining a first ontology that includes one or more labels. Each label is associated with a sample that includes text. The ML system is configured to use a particular label to retrieve one or more samples associated with the particular label. The method further involves receiving an identification of a label of a first ontol...