ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,493, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Query processing with machine learning" was invented by Konstantinos Karanasos (San Francisco), Matteo Interlandi (Seattle), Fotios Psallidas (Bellevue, Wash.), Rathijit Sen (Madison, Wis.), Kwanghyun Park (Hudson, Ohio), Ivan Popivanov (Redmond, Wash.), Subramaniam Venkatraman Krishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Markus Weimer (Kirkland, Wash.), Yuan Yu (Cupertino, Calif.), Raghunath Ramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.), Carlo Aldo Curino (Woodinville, Wash.), Doris Suiyi Xin (Berkeley, Calif.) and Karla Jean Saur (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office...