US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 18 for "System and method for intelligent knowledge access" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,151, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for intelligent knowledge access" was invented by Peter Yeh (Milpitas, Calif.), Ezra Story (Seattle) and Prateek Jain (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method includes matching terms of a received query to a database of provider capabilities. The method further includes determining, for each portion of the received query, a respective provider to execute the portion of the received query. The method further includes sending each portion of the received query to its respective provider. The...