ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,250, issued on Dec. 23.

"Personal assistant with secure LLM" was invented by Bao Tran (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using a local large language model (LLM) within a user's secure computing environment is disclosed. The LLM operates behind a firewall to prevent transmission of sensitive data, and utilizes an encrypted vector database and artificial intelligence techniques for content retrieval, response generation, and task anticipation. This system can be used on mobile, wearable, vehicle, or IoT devices and offers various services such as health monitoring, financial advice, automated communications ...