US Patent Issued to Vectara on Feb. 17 for "Self-improving system for searching cross-lingual and multi-media data" (Pakistani, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,782, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Vectara Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Self-improving system for searching cross-lingual and multi-media data" was invented by Amin Ahmad (Cupertino, Calif.), Amr Awadallah (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Tallat Shafaat (Islamabad).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic approach to indexing of content that allows a trained neural network to determine the graduality of indexes and/or the types of indexes that are employed. This dynamic approach may include generation of multiple indexes on the same content using multiple indexing algorithms."

The patent was filed on Jan. 23, 2023, under Application No. 18...