ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,466, issued on March 11.

"Universal reporting using natural language queries" was invented by Zhao Wang (Toronto), Brian Huang (Toronto), Murad Akhundov (Toronto), Zhi Rui Du (Toronto) and Jad Siblini (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for managing report requests are described. A device associated with an identity management platform may receive a message from a user of an organization via a client device. The message may include a natural language and may indicate a request for information associated with the organization. In response to the request, the device may generate a first query based on...