ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,034, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Transforming natural language to structured query language based on scalable search and content-based schema linking" was invented by Jae Min John (Redwood City, Calif.), Vishal Vishnoi (Redwood City, Calif.), Mark Edward Johnson (Castle Cove, Australia), Thanh Long Duong (Seabrook, Australia), Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde (Fremont, Calif.), Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shivashankar Subramanian (Melbourne, Australia), Cong Duy Vu Hoang (Melbourne, Australia), Yakupitiyage Don Thanuja Samodhye Dharmasiri (Melbourne, Australia), Nitika Mathur (Melbourne, Australia), Aash...