ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,378, issued on July 1, was assigned to PayPal Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated database query generation and analysis" was invented by Kim Dung Bui (Singapore), Quan Anh Nguyen (Singapore), George Chen Kaidi (Singapore), Phoram Kirtikumar Mehta (Singapore), Van Hoang Nguyen (Singapore) and Li Hua Lim (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to automatically generating and analyzing database queries. In various embodiments, a database inquiry assistance system maintains a first machine learning model trained using query history data for a database and a second machine learning model using analysis ...