ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,454, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Fuzzy matching natural language query from user specific metadata" was invented by Amjad Al-Rikabi (Seattle), Stephen Michael Ash (Seattle), Anuj Chauhan (New York), Rishav Chakravarti (White Plains, N.Y.), Wuwei Lan (Princeton Junction, N.J.), Jerry Lin (New York) and Gregory David Adams (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for an improved business intelligence platform that maintains and uses personalized data cache for processing natural language queries with personalized fuzzy matching in lieu of using predefined ind...