ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,140, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Database interface framework and database agents" was invented by Srikanth Kumar Sridhara (Telangana, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing a database interface framework, database agents, and operations thereof. In examples, a database interface framework may receive a natural language ("NL") query from a requesting device, may translate the NL query into a database agent query language ("QL") query, and may send the database agent QL query to a database agent. For each of at least one data...