Arria NLG plc is to be granted a patent on its Method, Apparatus, and Computer Program Product for User-Directed Reporting from the US Patent and Trademark Office, its eighth patent to date. The Company's Chief Development Scientist, Dr. Somayajulu Sripada, created this important new feature, part of the Arria NLG Platform. The patent covers a new feature of Arria NLG's products, which automates real-time data analysis and generates reports using language that follows intuitive rules for how humans communicate and comprehend information. The innovations protected by the new patent provide users of the Arria NLG Platform with an added level of control to query their data to achieve a deeper understanding. Users can direct the report output by changing the data parameters to refine its focus and apply the embedded subject matter expertise to quickly interrogate their data at the click of a mouse. This, Arria's eighth patent, covers flexible modification of search parameters not only for reports that may be generated with Arria NLG's advanced artificial intelligence technology, but also with more rudimentary, template based NLG systems offered by several of Arria NLG's competitors.