ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,322, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for semantic caching" was invented by Ashok Ganesan (Leander, Texas) and Peng Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to improve data retrieval from a cache memory by using semantic matching to retrieve data from the cache memory. The system includes a two-tiered cache system, with a first tier implementing "key-value" pairs, and a second tier that includes a table that is configured as an artificial intelligence (AI) search indexed source. When a new input does not have a matching "key" at...