ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,452, issued on May 19, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Anomalous query identification using query clustering" was invented by Anup Ghatage (Fremont, Calif.) and Colm McHugh (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to managing database queries. In some embodiments, a server system receives a query from a computer system and determines a set of aspects for the query, including at least a number of columns specified in the query and a computational cost of executing the query. The system generates a query vector based on the set of aspects determined for the query. The system then compare...