ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,567, issued on March 31, was assigned to Royal Bank of Canada (Toronto).

"Learning and personal data management platform" was invented by Nathan Currell (Toronto), Hilton Luu (Calgary, Canada), Linna Zhang (Vancouver, Canada) and Abdellah Ghassel (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for processing natural language queries. A natural language query related to personal information of the user is obtained. Query vectors that include embeddings of the query are generated and matched with document vectors generated from chunks of reference documents related to the personal data. The document chunks are ...