ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,988, issued on July 15, was assigned to Anomali Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Automatic query language generation for specialized query language based on natural language search" was invented by Mohsen Imani (Flower Mound, Texas) and Yizheng Zhou (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query building tool receives user input of a natural language query by way of a search interface and decomposes the natural language query into sections. The tool prompts a large language model to, for each section, search a portion of a grammar of a query language having a corresponding query type for each section and construct a query lan...