ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,328, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generation of synthetic data for query generation" was invented by Xinye Tang (Issaquah, Wash.), Mahan Das (San Jose, Calif.) and Ye Xing (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, devices, and computer readable storage media described herein provide techniques for generating synthetic data for use in query generation. In an aspect, a pair comprising a natural language (NL) query and a query language (QL) query and predicted catalog information are used to prompt a large language model (LLM) to generate an augmented...