US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Sept. 1 for "Automated generation of pairs of natural language questions and database queries" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,767, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automated generation of pairs of natural language questions and database queries" was invented by Sujit Rokka Chhetri (San Jose, Calif.), William Redington Hewlett II (Mountain View, Calif.), Sheng Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Gaurav Mitesh Dalal (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pipeline performs automated generation of database queries for a database and corresponding questions comprising natural language text. The pipeline generates database query templates based at least partly on a schema of the database and populates the qu...