ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,160, issued on June 23, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data exploration using natural language with data sampling" was invented by Subrata Mitra (Bangalore, India), Shubham Agarwal (West Bengal, India), Yeuk-Yin Chan (San Jose, Calif.), Shaddy Garg (San Jose, Calif.) and Tong Yu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, an exploratory data analytics tool obtains a natural language query and generates a structured data query for execution on a sample of a dataset based on the natural language query. In an example, an intent is determined for the query and the intent is used, at least in part...