ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,906, issued on June 17, was assigned to ThoughtSpot Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Automatic data analysis formula phrase generation" was invented by Pankaj Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Anurag Tomer (Ghaziabad, India), Kedar Milind Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Alok Yadav (New Delhi) and Akshay Mehra (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic data-analysis formula phrase generation includes obtaining a natural language string expressing a request for an automatically generated data-analysis formula phrase, obtaining first prompt data including a first proper subset of defined data-analysis formula phrases previously de...