ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,931, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Combining reasoning and explicit graph walks in multi-domain queries" was invented by Jan-Ove Almli Karlberg (Tromso, Norway), Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum (Tromso, Norway) and Theodoros Gkountouvas (Tromso, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements systems and methods for performing multi-domain queries that combine explicit graph walks and fuzzy semantic reasoning of language models. These systems and methods leverage the fuzzy semantic reasoning capabilities of a language model during query execution to genera...