ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,282, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Language model for abstractive summarization" was invented by Luke Percival de Oliveira (San Francisco) and Alfredo Lainez Rodrigo (Madrid).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for abstractive summarization of text by viewing sequence transduction as a language modeling problem. One method comprises an operation for training a machine-learning program to create a machine-learning model that estimates a word to be added to a running summary for the text being summarized. The method further comprises operations for detec...