ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,112, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generating hierarchical queries from natural language" was invented by Yeuk-Yin Chan (San Jose, Calif.), Victor S. Bursztyn (Mountain View, Calif.), Eunyee Koh (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Ross (Highland, Utah) and Vasanthi Holtcamp (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to generating hierarchical queries from text queries. A query generation system is configured to encode a text query to obtain a text embedding. Then, the system may select a field of a data schema by comparing the text embedding to a field embedding corresp...