US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 17 for "Semantic interpreter for natural language commanding in applications via program synthesis" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,938, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic interpreter for natural language commanding in applications via program synthesis" was invented by Apurva Sandeep Gandhi (Union City, Calif.), Thong Quang Nguyen (Seattle), Ameya Shyam Bhatawdekar (Sammamish, Wash.), Huitian Jiao (Snoqualmie, Wash.), Robert Steen (Seattle) and Ajitesh Kishore (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving a natural language query from a client device, the query including a textual description of one or more actions to be performed using an application o...