US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 8 for "Natural language conversion to SQL for complex scenarios" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,807, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Natural language conversion to SQL for complex scenarios" was invented by Rui Han (Xi'An, China), Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai), Qi Liang Zhou (Xi'An, China), Yong Wang (Xian, China) and Deng Xin Luo (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation includes one or more of receiving a natural language input via a software application, executing a machine learning model on the natural language input to determine a plurality of sub-queries corresponding to the natural language input, searching a tree structure for field values that...