Patents by Inventor Karen Jensen
Karen Jensen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20230225345Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterile-filtered liquid lactase preparation and to a method of sterile filtering a liquid lactase preparation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Cedric Hobel, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 11576393Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterile-filtered liquid lactase preparation and to a method of sterile filtering a liquid lactase preparation. At least 0.01% w/w of at least one salt having a monovalent cation is added in order to improve filterability. The system may further comprise a polyol stabilizer.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Novozymes A/SInventors: Cedric Hobel, Karen Jensen
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Publication number: 20200221721Abstract: The present invention relates to a sterile-filtered liquid lactase preparation and to a method of sterile filtering a liquid lactase preparation. At least 0.01% w/w of at least one salt having a monovalent cation is added in order to improve filterability. The system may further comprise a polyol stabilizer.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 16, 2020Applicant: Novozymes A/SInventors: Cedric Hobel, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 7383169Abstract: A lexical knowledge base is compiled automatically from a machine-readable source (such as an on-line dictionary or unstructured text). The preferred embodiment of the invention makes use of “backward linking,” by which inverse semantic relations are discerned from the text and used to augment the knowledge base. By this arrangement, on-line dictionaries and other texts can provide formidable sources of “common sense” knowledge about the world.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1994Date of Patent: June 3, 2008Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Lucretia H. Vanderwende, Stephen D. Richardson, Karen Jensen, George E. Heidorn, William B. Dolan
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Publication number: 20050221465Abstract: The invention relates to a microorganism growth substrate which comprises a sterile nutrient composition derived from the biomass of a culture of bacteria including methanotrophic bacteria and further containing at least one sterile nutrient. A preferred biomass material is that derived from a microbial culture comprising Methylococcus capsulates (Bath) (strain NCIMB 11132), Ralstonia sp. DB3 (strain NCIMB 13287) and Brevibacillus agri DB5 (strain NCIMB 13289), optionally in combination with Aneurinibacillus sp. DB4 (strain NCIMB 13288).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2003Publication date: October 6, 2005Inventors: Einar Moen, Jeanette Jorgensen, Karen Jensen, Arild Johannessen
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Publication number: 20050163802Abstract: The invention relates to the use as an immunostimulant of a composition comprising biomass derived from a methanotrophic bacterium-containing culture. The immunostimulatory effect of this biomass material renders this particularly suitable for use in preventing disease or conditions in an animal body which are associated with, caused by, or otherwise contributed to by any exogenous foreign material, e.g. a pathogenic microorganism. A preferred biomass for use in the invention is that derived from a microbial culture comprising Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) (strain NCIMB11132), DB3 (strain NCIMB 13287) and DB5 (strain NCIMB13289), optionally in combination with DB4 (strain NCIMB13288).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2002Publication date: July 28, 2005Applicant: NORFERM DAInventors: Lars Jorgensen, Arild Johannessen, Karen Jensen, Gunnar Kleppe
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Patent number: 6246977Abstract: The present invention is directed to performing information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text. In a preferred embodiment, a tokenizer generates from an input string information retrieval tokens that characterize the semantic relationship expressed in the input string. The tokenizer first creates from the input string a primary logical form characterizing a semantic relationship between selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then identifies hypemyms that each have an “is a” relationship with one of the selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then constructs from the primary logical form one or more alternative logical forms. The tokenizer constructs each alternative logical form by, for each of one or more of the selected words in the input string, replacing the selected word in the primary logical form with an identified hypernym of the selected word.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: June 12, 2001Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John J. Messerly, George E. Heidorn, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 6161084Abstract: The present invention is directed to performing information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text. In a preferred embodiment, a tokenizer generates from an input string information retrieval tokens that characterize the semantic relationship expressed in the input string. The tokenizer first creates from the input string a primary logical form characterizing a semantic relationship between selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then identifies hypernyms that each have an "is a" relationship with one of the selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then constructs from the primary logical form one or more alternative logical forms. The tokenizer constructs each alternative logical form by, for each of one or more of the selected words in the input string, replacing the selected word in the primary logical form with an identified hypernym of the selected word. Finally, the tokenizer generates tokens representing both the primary logical form and the alternative logical forms.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1999Date of Patent: December 12, 2000Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John J. Messerly, George E. Heidorn, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 6108620Abstract: A method and system that uses a chunking technique to guide the parsing. A chunk is a portion of the input for which the system has determined that a sufficient number of syntax rules have been applied such that further application of syntax rules to that chunk is unlikely to produce a more accurate sub-parse for that chunk. When using the chunking technique, the system selects a syntax rule to apply to the current partial parse (sub-trees) of the input sentence. The selected syntax rule has a high probability relative to other syntax rules that can be applied to the one or more potential sub-trees of the input sentence. The system then applies the selected syntax rule to the potential sub-trees of the input sentence to form a new potential sub-trees of the input sentence. When the system determines that syntax rules with low probabilities have recently been applied, the system disables application of syntax rules to a portion of parse of the input sentence (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 1999Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Richardson, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 6076051Abstract: The present invention is directed to performing information retrieval utilizing semantic representation of text. In a preferred embodiment, a tokenizer generates from an input string information retrieval tokens that characterize the semantic relationship expressed in the input string. The tokenizer first creates from the input string a primary logical form characterizing a semantic relationship between selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then identifies hypernyms that each have an "is a" relationship with one of the selected words in the input string. The tokenizer then constructs from the primary logical form one or more alternative logical forms. The tokenizer constructs each alternative logical form by, for each of one or more of the selected words in the input string, replacing the selected word in the primary logical form with an identified hypernym of the selected word. Finally, the tokenizer generates tokens representing both the primary logical form and the alternative logical forms.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1997Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John J. Messerly, George E. Heidorn, Stephen D. Richardson, William B. Dolan, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 5966686Abstract: Methods and computer systems for semantically analyzing natural language sentences. The natural language processing subsystems for morphological and syntactic analysis transform an input sentence into a syntax parse tree. Semantic analysis applies three sets of semantic rules to create a skeletal logical form graph from a syntax parse tree. Semantic analysis then applies two additional sets of semantic rules to provide semantically meaningful labels for the links of the logical form graph, to create additional logical form graph nodes for missing elements, and to unify redundant elements. The final logical form graph represents the complete semantic analysis of an input sentence.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1996Date of Patent: October 12, 1999Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: George Heidorn, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 5926784Abstract: A method and system for determining the likelihood that a certain syntax rule when applied to a partial parse of an input will produce a node that will be part of the correct parse for the input. Each syntax rule indicates a higher-level syntactic construct that can be formed from one or more lower-level syntactic constructs. Each syntax rule has a probability which indicates the likelihood that the syntax rule will succeed and produce a node in the resulting parse tree. Each syntax rule also has a heuristic score formula indicating how to calculate a heuristically derived score for the higher-level syntactic construct created when the syntax rule is successfully applied. When a syntax rule is successfully applied while parsing the input sentence, the system calculates a probability for the higher-level syntactic construct produced by the syntax rule.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 1997Date of Patent: July 20, 1999Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Steve Richardson, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 5694559Abstract: An improved free text query method and system is provided as part of an improved on-line help system. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the on-line help system provides a free text query system that performs partial analysis. The partial analysis performed by the preferred embodiment includes identifying keywords within input provided by the user, performing disambiguation analysis, performing definiteness analysis, performing capitalization analysis, and generating a ranked list of candidates according to a probability associated with each candidate. In addition, the preferred embodiment of the present invention is internationalizable. That is, the present invention is easily ported between different languages.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1995Date of Patent: December 2, 1997Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Samuel D. Hobson, Eric Horvitz, David E. Heckerman, John S. Breese, Erich-S.o slashed.ren Finkelstein, Gregory L. Shaw, James R. Flynn, Karen Jensen
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Patent number: 5146406Abstract: A computer method is disclosed for determining predicate-argument structures in input prose sentences of English. The input sentence, in the form of a string of words separated by blanks, is first analyzed (parsed) by a rule component that has access only to morphological and syntactic information about the words. The output of this rule component, in the form of a data structure consisting of attribute-value pairs, is then processed by the argument structure component, which consists of a set of partially ordered procedures that incorporate further linguistic knowledge. The output of these procedures is the same attribute-value structure, now enhanced by the presence of semantic (i.e. meaningful, non-syntactic) attributes. These semantic attributes, taken together, form the argument structure of the input sentence.The resulting invention constitutes a fully modular, comprehensive and efficient method for passing from syntax to the first stage of semantic processing of natural (human) language.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 1989Date of Patent: September 8, 1992Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventor: Karen Jensen