ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,408, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic parsing of natural language query" was invented by Yan Gao (Redmond, Wash.), Lei Fang (Redmond, Wash.), Dongmei Zhang (Beijing), Yan Xiao (Redmond, Wash.), Jian-Guang Lou (Redmond, Wash.) and Maria del Mar Gines Marin (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a solution for semantic parsing of the natural language query is provided. In this solution, a first natural language query for a first data table is received, where the first natural language query compri...