ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,374, issued on April 8, was assigned to Promethium Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Querying heterogeneous data sources using machine learning based language model" was invented by Kaycee Kuan-Cheng Lai (San Carlos, Calif.), Aleksey Vinokurov (Yardley, Pa.) and Ravikanth Kasamsetty (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analysis system connects to a set of data sources and perform natural language questions based on the data sources. The analysis system connects with the data sources and retrieves metadata describing data assets stored in each data source. The analysis system generates an execution plan for the natural lang...