ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,908, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Akkio Inc. (Boston).

"Methods and systems for automatically generating and executing computer code using a natural language description of a data manipulation to be performed on a data set" was invented by Nate Gillman (New York), Nadia Lahlaf (Billerica, Mass.), Aperahama Parangi (Boston), Jonathon Reilly (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nathan Wies (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for automatically generating and executing computer code includes receiving, by a machine learning engine, a user-specified data set and a user-specified task. The machine learning engine analyzes at ...