US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 29 for "Enforcing both syntactic and semantic correctness of domain-specific data queries" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,781, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Enforcing both syntactic and semantic correctness of domain-specific data queries" was invented by Lengning Liu (Redmond, Wash.), Tanuja Machineni (Redmond, Wash.), Chad Michael Heyne (Redmond, Wash.), Manohar Sreenivasachar (Redmond, Wash.), Richard T. Guy (Seattle) and Roji Pulimoottil Thomas (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for enforcing both syntactic and semantic correctness of domain-specific data queries include: receiving a data query; constraining an operation of the data query to enforce semantic correctnes...