ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,489, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic parsing with pre-trained language models" was invented by Jacob Daniel Andreas (Somerville, Mass.), Kaj Alexander Nelson Bostrom (Austin, Texas), Hao Fang (Seattle), Harsh Jhamtani (Redmond, Wash.), Jason Michael Eisner (Baltimore), Benjamin David Van Durme (Baltimore), Patrick Aozhe Xia (Bellevue, Wash.), Eui Chul Shin (San Francisco) and Samuel McIntire Thomson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of semantic parsing using pre-trained language models are provided. One aspect includes a computing system ...