ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,840, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Embedding based heterogenous dataset evaluation" was invented by Julia Blyumen (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Michael Joseph Loughran (Naas, Ireland) and Patrick Gerald O'Sullivan (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment generates, using a trained document embedding model, a plurality of table embeddings, each table embedding in the plurality of table embeddings representing a table in a dataset. An embodiment generates, using the trained document embedding model, a query embedding, the query embedding representing a natural l...