ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,875, issued on May 12, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Semantic search interface for data repositories" was invented by Vidya Raghavan Setlur (Portola Valley, Calif.), Arjun Srinivasan (Seattle) and Andriy Kanyuka (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides visual analysis of datasets. A system receives a natural language search query that is directed to data repositories including data sources and data visualizations. The system parses search tokens to determine if the natural language search query contains analytic intents. The system also determines if the search tokens match fields in one ...