ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,225, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Tekion Corp (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Machine learning-implemented chat bot database query system for multi-format database queries" was invented by Jayaprakash Vijayan (Dublin, Calif.), Ved Surtani (Bengaluru, India), Nitika Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Malarvizhi Saravanan (Bengaluru, India), Anirudh Saria (Kathmandu, Nepal) and Amrutha Dharmaraj (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device receives a query from a user associated with a car dealership and applies the query to a first trained machine learning model configured to predict an intent, and to a second trained machine learn...