ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,755, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hound Technology Inc. (San Francisco).

"Query building using generative artificial intelligence" was invented by Phillip Michael Carter (Redmond, Wash.), Tatsiana Ramankova (Bonney Lake, Wash.), Craig Adams Atkinson (Shoreview, Minn.) and Sarah Jeanne Voegeli (Golden, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for building queries using generative artificial intelligence (AI) is described. In an example implementation, the system may include an observability platform configured to receive a user request to use generative artificial intelligence in association with a query on an ob...