ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,518, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Example-based autogenerated data processing rules" was invented by Mukul Singh (Delhi, India), Jose Pablo Cambronero Sanchez (New Haven, Conn.), Sumit Gulwani (Sammamish, Wash.), Vu Minh Le (Redmond, Wash.), Carina Suzana Negreanu (Cambridge, Great Britain), Mohammad Raza (Sammamish, Wash.), Daniel Galen Simmons (Carnation, Wash.) and Gust Ben Anneloes Verbruggen (Keerbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments automatically generate data processing rules based on positive examples of processed data, e.g., formatting rule...