ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,554, issued on July 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generating security language queries" was invented by Daniel Lee Mace (Bellevue, Wash.), William Blum (Bellevue, Wash.), Jeremias Eichelbaum (Vancouver, Canada), Amir Rubin (Vancouver, Canada), Edir V. Garcia Lazo (Seattle), Nihal Irmak Pakis (Vancouver, Canada), Yogesh K. Roy (Redmond, Wash.), Jugal Parikh (Sammamish, Wash.), Peter A. Bryan (Seattle), Benjamin Elliott Nick (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ram Shankar Siva Kumar (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating a security language query from a u...