MUMBAI, India, Aug. 22 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517074198 A) filed by Google Llc, Mountain View, U.S.A., on Aug. 4, for 'generation of explanations with multistep reasoning for ranking in recommender systems.'

Inventor(s) include Chu, Brian; and Friedman, Luke, Beck.

The application for the patent was published on Aug. 22, under issue no. 34/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The technology employs large language models (LLMs) (1102) to simultaneously generate an explanation (1106) and a score (ranking) (1104) using a multistep reasoning process that evaluates both item metadata (1110) and user context (1108). The context may include information from ...