ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,272, issued on Oct. 21.

"Text-to-SQL model anchor query generation" was invented by Yifan Xu (Redmond, Wash.), FNU Kishan Borule Rahul (Bangalore, India) and Varsha Mahadevan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. The method may include generating, for a database table and using a language model, candidate structured query language (SQL) queries and candidate query intents using a set of SQL query templates and table metadata for the database table, where each candidate SQL query is associated with a respective candidate query intent. The method may include va...