ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,616, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Semantic reasoning for tabular question answering" was invented by Dung Thai (Amherst, Mass.), Doo Soon Kim (San Jose, Calif.), Franck Dernoncourt (San Jose, Calif.) and Trung Bui (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for natural language processing are described. One or more embodiments of the present disclosure receive a query related to information in a table, compute an operation selector by combining the query with an operation embedding representing a plurality of table operations, compute a column selector by combining the qu...