ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,099, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for interpreting natural language search queries using training data" was invented by Jeffry Copps Robert Jose (Chennai, India) and Ajay Kumar Mishra (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A frequency of occurrence for each term in a training data set is determined in relation to the entire training data set. A relational data structure is generated that associates each term in the training data with its respective frequency. Any term that has a frequency below a threshold frequency is then added to a list of relevant words. W...