ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,105, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Clause based semantic parsing" was invented by Zeqi Lin (Redmond, Wash.), JianGuang Lou (Redmond, Wash.) and Dongmei Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to implementations of the subject matter described herein, a clause-based semantic parsing solution is provided. In the solution, a first clause with independent semantics is determined from a target statement. The target statement is converted to a first intermediate statement based on a first logical representation corresponding to the first clause. Subsequently, at least...