US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 13 for "Dynamic query planning and execution" (California, Maryland, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,975, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Dynamic query planning and execution" was invented by Manish R. Baldua (San Jose, Calif.), Daniel K. Hewlett (Clarksville, Md.), Gregory E. Pounds (San Jose, Calif.), Xie Lu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jonathan Pohl (Concord, Mass.) and Peter Rigano (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include receiving a first query including at least one first query term and configuring at least one prompt to cause a large language model to translate the at least one first query term into a set of functions that c...