ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,306, issued on March 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Textual explanations for abstract syntax trees with scored nodes" was invented by Kenyu Kobayashi (Lausanne, Switzerland), Arno Schneuwly (Effretikon, Switzerland), Renata Khasanova (Zurich), Matteo Casserini (Zurich) and Felix Schmidt (Baden-Dattwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is a machine learning (ML) explainability (MLX) approach in which a natural language explanation is generated based on analysis of a parse tree such as for a suspicious database query or web browser JavaScript. In an embodiment, a computer sel...