ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,187, issued on June 16, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Text-to-structured query language query generation using query logs and data profiling" was invented by Theodore Johnson (New York), Vladislav Shkapenyuk (New York) and Divesh Srivastava (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a method performed by a processing system including at least one processor includes automatically inferring metadata about a structured query language database, constructing, based on the metadata, a prompt for generating a new structured query language query to be executed against the structured query langu...