ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,349, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for augmenting training data for aggregation and sorting database operations in a natural language to database query system" was invented by Gioacchino Tangari (Sydney), Nitika Mathur (Melbourne, Australia), Philip Arthur (Sydney), Cong Duy Vu Hoang (Wantirna South, Australia), Aashna Devang Kanuga (Foster City, Calif.), Steve Wai-Chun Siu (Melbourne, Australia), Syed Najam Abbas Zaidi (Melbourne, Australia), Poorya Zaremoodi (Melbourne, Australia), Thanh Long Duong (Melbourne, Australia) and Mark Edward Johnson (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent ...