ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,652, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ZILLIZ INC. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Apparatus, method and storage medium for data query using similarity between a query request and audio and/or video files" was invented by Chao Xie (Redwood City, Calif.), Anyang Wang (Shanghai), Yuchen Gao (Shanghai) and Rentong Guo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, method and storage medium for data query is disclosed. One or more domain-related question-answering pairs, files, and summary information of each file may be pre-stored in a vector database. When receiving the query request from the user, the question-answering system first ob...