US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Hybrid AI architecture for natural language query" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,542, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hybrid AI architecture for natural language query" was invented by Christopher A. Hays (Monroe, Wash.) and Aaron S. Meyers (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions perform natural language query processing on hybrid utterances. A precise segment is identified, within the hybrid utterance, and processed with a symbolic AI interpreter configured to generate a first interpretation. The precise segment is replaced, within the hybrid utterance, with a placeholder term thereby resulting in a vague utterance. The vague utteran...