ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,879, issued on March 25, was assigned to Thoughtspot Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Mapping natural language to queries using a query grammar" was invented by Nikhil Yadav (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ravi Tandon (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for mapping natural language to queries using a query grammar are described. For example, methods may include generating, based on a string, a set of tokens of a database syntax; generating a query graph for the set of tokens from a finite state machine representing a query grammar, wherein nodes of the finite state machine represent token types, directed edges...