ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,357, issued on July 1, was assigned to Nasdaq Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods of processing queries using multi-tool agents and modular workflows" was invented by Viktor Aghajanyan (Boston) and Michael Stiller (Bronxville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for processing user queries by using an automated agent and a workflow. The system comprises reusable components that include states, tools, and/or data sources. Based on analysis of a query's content and goals, the system generates a workflow comprising a sequence of states, each state optimized for a subtask and dynamically bound to a selected tool(s) ...