ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,293, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for processing queries against semantic cache entries using unique distance-based thresholds" was invented by Laurent Boue (Petah Tikva, Israel), Yasmin Bokobza (Ramat Gan, Israel), Kiran Rama (Bangalore, India) and Naveen Panwar (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a dataset of query-answer pairs. Synthetic variations of queries are generated and each of the synthetic variations of queries are mapped to a corresponding answer from the datas...