ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,614, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Computing system and method for automatically generating structured queries based on construction-related natural-language requests" was invented by Elijah El-Haddad (Poway, Calif.), Michael David Fairchild (Ventura, Calif.), Jayadev Padmaja Rajan (Mississauga, Canada), Ryan Michael Fuentes (Austin, Texas) and Siddhartha Chatterjee (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system is configured to: (i) receive, from a client device, a natural-language query that is related to a construction project managed via a construction manag...