ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,004, issued on March 18, was assigned to DataIris Platform Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Database query generation from natural language statements" was invented by Amit Aggarwal (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Query language statements are generated from natural language statements using a knowledge graph representing one or more databases. The knowledge graph is obtained by creating nodes representing tables and operations referenced by queries to the databases. The data of the databases is evaluated to identify entities and dimensions of entities from among the nodes. The entities are assigned human-understandable ...