ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,731, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Guizhou, China).

"Natural language query statement processing method and apparatus" was invented by Zi Ye (Hangzhou, China), Xinyu Duan (Hangzhou, China), Zhefeng Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Baoxing Huai (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language query statement processing method includes obtaining a natural language query statement; inputting the natural language query statement and the to-be-queried data table into a child table recall model to obtain at least one candidate data table; determining a target data table from th...