ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,150, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Configuring a large language model to convert natural language queries to structured queries" was invented by Vidit Aggarwal (Dublin, Calif.), Lukasz Janusz Karolewski (San Jose, Calif.) and Ajay Prakash (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies are capable of generating natural language queries. The embodiments describe generating a training natural language query of a training structured search query using a first LLM and a first prompt. The embodiments further describe fine-tuning a second L...