ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,024, issued on July 8, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Intelligent question answering on tabular content" was invented by Eldhose Joy (Thane, India), Sundar Prasad Jayaraman (Chennai, India), Harsha Jawagal (Bangalore, India) and Vishal Radhesham Supekar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intelligent table-based question answering system receives an input user query requesting information from an input table to generate a response to the input query. Two types of user queries including textual user queries and scalar user queries that require at least one mathematical operation to be executed can...