ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,477, issued on July 8, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Providing an object-based response to a natural language query" was invented by David Lisuk (New York), Eric Porter (Pepper Pike, Ohio), Aditya Shashi (Seattle), Ilai Soloducho (Tel Aviv, Israel), John Wiseheart (London), Guodong Xu (Issaquah, Wash.) and Maciej Foks (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data analysis system presents a user interface to allow a user to provide a natural language query pertaining to a dataset, wherein the dataset is associated with a data object model comprising a plurality of objects and receives, via the user interface, us...