ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,235, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Agentic approach to multilingual text-to-SQL conversion with intent detection and self-correction" was invented by Spandan Mishra (Oakland, Calif.), Danielle Hyunwon Sim (Los Angeles), Nandan Gautam Thor (Redwood City, Calif.), Katherine Chiang Lam (New York), Jarod Matthew Hillerman (Huntington Beach, Calif.), Alan Wayne Gilchrest (Zephyr Cove, Nev.), Alexander Michael Margaris (Dublin, Calif.), Taylor Yoojin Lee (San Francisco) and Stefan Schlotter (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intent associated with a user input is determined...