ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,956, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Telecommunications network management" was invented by Mustafa Kasap (Kenmore, Wash.), Alejandro Jose Miguel (Sammamish, Wash.), Jason Hogg (Kirkland, Wash.), Anthony Justin Howe (Seattle) and William Lee Labor Jr. (Dagsboro, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language query is received from an operator of a telecommunications network. A metadata request is computed from the natural language query. The metadata request is sent to a repository of metadata, the metadata describing telemetry data of the telecommunications network, the ...