ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,317, issued on July 1, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for providing a semantic query framework" was invented by Anagha Rumade (Mountain View, Calif.), Anjana Umapathy (Santa Clara, N.Y.), Sadra Amiri Moghadam (Mission San Jose, Calif.), Abhik Banerjee (Milpitas, Calif.), Gupta Gundlapalli (Frisco, Texas), Jainesh Doshi (San Francisco) and Srinivasa Murthy Basavaraju (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a method including: receiving, from a query interface, a natural language query; encoding the natural language query into...