ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,382, issued on March 17, was assigned to Writer Inc. (San Francisco).

"Natural language generation using knowledge graph incorporating textual summaries" was invented by Waseem AlShikh (Boca Raton, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural-language textual sequence representing a question is received from a user. From a knowledge graph domain data is retrieved that includes: a first textual passage based on a first ranking with respect to the natural-language textual sequence, a first textual summary associated with the first textual passage, a second textual passage based on a first ranking with respect to a comparison of the s...