ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,698, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Schema and cell value aware named entity recognition model for executing natural language queries" was invented by Jun Wang (Jersey City, N.J.), Sudipta Sengupta (Sammamish, Wash.), Zhiguo Wang (Syosset, N.Y.), Ramesh M Nallapati (Fremont, Calif.) and Bing Xiang (Mount Kisco, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A schema and cell value aware Named Entity Recognition (NER) model is used to perform natural language queries. Natural language queries may be received via an interface of a natural language query processing system. A fuzzy search may be performed th...