ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,486, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Generating enhanced queries using machine learning models" was invented by Venkatakrishnan Gopalakrishnan (Seattle), May Bich Nhi Lam (San Jose, Calif.), Diego Ceferino Torres Dho (Barcelona, Spain) and Jan Sterba (Bratislava, Slovak Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating terms to replace an initial set of search terms for a query are disclosed. A system generates a training data set for training a machine learning model. Generating the training data set includes generating search value vectors for each of a set of l...