ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,915, issued on March 25, was assigned to Casetext Inc. (Eagan, Minn.).

"Natural language database generation and query system" was invented by Javed Qadrud-Din (Union City, Calif.), Pablo Arredondo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Walter DeFoor (Rockville, Md.) and Alan deLevie (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query request may be received via a communication interface. Records may be retrieved from a database system based on the query request. The records may correspond with document portions selected from documents. A subset of the records may be determined by applying textual analysis of the document portions based on the query r...