ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,929, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for using named entity recognition to resolve entity expression in transforming natural language to a meaning representation language" was invented by Aashna Devang Kanuga (Foster City, Calif.), Cong Duy Vu Hoang (Wantirna South, Australia), Mark Edward Johnson (Sydney), Vasisht Raghavendra (San Mateo, Calif.), Yuanxu Wu (Foster City, Calif.), Steve Wai-Chun Siu (Melbourne, Australia), Nitika Mathur (Melbourne, Australia), Gioacchino Tangari (Sydney), Shubham Pawankumar Shah (Foster City, Calif.), Vanshika Sridharan (San Mateo, Calif.), Zikai Li (Redwood City, Calif.), Diego An...