ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,225, issued on July 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for generating multi-modal discourse trees" was invented by Boris Galitsky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for generating and utilizing a multi-modal discourse tree (MMDT) are provided herein. An extended discourse tree (EDT) may be generated (e.g., from a discourse tree (DT) or a communicative DT (CDT)) from a corpus of text. Data records (e.g., records contained numerical data) may be linked to the extended discourse tree to generate a multi-modal discourse tree. The multi-modal discourse tree may link a...