ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,973, issued on May 6, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Query generalization for prevention of injection attacks" was invented by Kostyantyn Vorobyov (Brisbane, Australia) and Padmanabhan Krishnan (Brisbane, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating a query filter list includes obtaining set of training queries, each training query comprising a predicate and one or more accessed columns returned from evaluating the predicate, and transforming the set of training queries into a structure. The structure relates, for an accessed column and a training query, the predicate and a c...