ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,670, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tursio Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Generative business intelligence" was invented by Alekh Jindal (Sammamish, Wash.), Shi Qiao (Mercer Island, Wash.), Arijit Chatterjee (Kirkland, Wash.) and Xiangyu Luo (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations described herein relate to systems and methods to generate a response to a business intelligence question received from a user. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method may include receiving the question as a natural language string, determining one or more fragments based on the natural language string, identifying one...