ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,683, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Solving multilingual queries using vector database" was invented by Jun Su (Beijing), Yin Xia (Beijing), Douglas Brian Mueller (Apex, N.C.) and Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, according to one approach, includes: causing a received query to be translated from a first language to a second language. The method also includes generating potential answers for the translated query, and extracting features from the translated query. The method also includes causing the extracted features to be converted into feat...