US Patent Issued to Samsara on Sept. 8 for "Entity-based data query system" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,803, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Samsara Inc. (San Francisco).

"Entity-based data query system" was invented by Sven Eberhardt (Seattle), Haiying Lu (Issaquah, Wash.) and Yangyong Zhang (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for processing natural language queries using an entity-based data query system. The system maintains a plurality of entities in an entity registry, where each entity corresponds to a data type and includes query fragments and entity attributes. Upon receiving a natural language query, the system analyzes it using a large language model (LLM) to identify referenced e...