ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,809, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automated prompt augmentation and engineering using ML automation in SQL query engine" was invented by Anatoly Yakovlev (Hayward, Calif.), Sandeep R. Agrawal (San Jose, Calif.), Sanjay Jinturkar (Basking Ridge, N.J.) and Nipun Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system generates a prompt for an LLM or other machine learning (ML) model to narrow the search space to highly relevant information about a database. A distinct instance of a classifier, a clustering algorithm, or a topic modeling model can be trained ...