ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,157, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatically generating context-based responses to natural language queries using knowledge graphs" was invented by Avril W. Hsu (Dublin, Calif.), Jingyi Geng (Bellaire, Texas), Sarthak Kapoor (Austin, Texas) and Nicholas Thompson (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically generating context-based responses to natural language queries using knowledge graphs are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes generating at least one query in a predetermined query ...