ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,947, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SABRE GLBL INC. (Southlake, Texas).

"Database search query enhancer" was invented by Matthew Morgan Lane (Southlake, Texas) and Saunvit Dinesh Pandya (The Colony, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor that receives a query from a device. The query includes first search parameters. The processor also retrieves, from a database and based on the first search parameters, a plurality of previously issued queries and applies a machine learning algorithm on the plurality of previously issued queries to determine second search parameters. The process...