ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,474, issued on March 4, was assigned to Splunk Inc. (San Francisco).

"Language conversion system" was invented by Alexander D. James (Sammamish, Wash.), Ankur Dalsukhbhai Bambharoliya (Bellevue, Wash.), Venkatasubramanian Jayaraman (Issaquah, Wash.), Andrew John Peters (Sammamish, Wash.) and Salih Ammar Wajih Zainulabdeen (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for a query conversion system to convert a first query string from a first version of a query language to a second version of the query language. The query conversion system may be associated with a tokenizer and parser, code converter, compat...