G06F 16/242
Query formulation
G06F16/242 (Query formulation) appears on 6,961 US grants and 7,905 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 7,905
- Assignees
- 1,829
- Inventors
- 16,928
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 420 | 566 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- G06F 16/2433Query languages1,900
- G06F 16/243Natural language query formulation1,630
- G06F 16/2428Query predicate definition using graphical user interfaces, including menus and forms1,435
- G06F 16/2425Iterative querying925
- G06F 16/2423Interactive query statement specification based on a database schema909
Recent patents
- Automated address geocoding6 Oct 2026US 12,754,898 B1The Huntington National Bank
- Query transformations and layered filtering6 Oct 2026US 12,754,901 B1Rapid7, Inc.
- Adaptive follow-up query generation for applications leveraging language models6 Oct 2026US 12,754,902 B2Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- Reducing the input prompt size for a large language model6 Oct 2026US 12,754,903 B1Red Hat, Inc.
- System and method for enhanced schema discovery and query generation6 Oct 2026US 12,754,907 B2Intuit Inc.
- Agent traversal of multi-layer data structure8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310472 A1Google Inc.
- Systems and methods for context-aware query interpretation using generative artificial intelligence models8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310657 A1Accenture Global Solutions Limited
- Ephemeral views for database query generator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310658 A1Notion Labs, Inc.
- Systems and methods for automated model generation8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310659 A1Kobai, Inc.
- Systems and methods for on-device application-specific natural language processing8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310660 A1Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of selecting and presenting data from a database using a query language to a user of a computer system2,289US 5,715,450 ASiebel Systems, Inc. · 1998
- Graphic user interface for database system1,545US 5,966,126 A1999
- Refining search queries by the suggestion of correlated terms from prior searches932US 6,006,225 AAmazon. com, Inc. · 1999
- Data model for machine data for semantic search833US 8,788,525 B2Splunk Inc. · 2014
- System and method for natural language processing of query answers680US 7,702,508 B2Phoenix Solutions, Inc. · 2010