ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,707, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Structured query language generation using large language models" was invented by Ali Payani (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method herein comprises: inputting, by a device, an input prompt to a first large language model to generate an output; computing, by the device, a reward metric in part by using a solver to process the output; tuning, by the device and based on the reward metric, a second large language model configured to correct errors of the first lar...