ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,297, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for generating query language queries using templatized query prompts" was invented by Sudhanshu Kulkarni (Bengaluru, India), Yaswanth Sai Kamma (Bengaluru, India), Ashis K. Roy (Redmond, Wash.) and Preetika Shukla (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for converting a natural language input into a query language query. One or more placeholder names and one or more corresponding placeholder values can be extracted from the natural language input. The one or more corresponding placeholder values in t...