ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,469, issued on July 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Verification and citation for language model outputs" was invented by Ladan Mahabadi (Seattle), Alexander Illichmann (Seattle), Tong Ge (Belleville, N.J.), Sudhir Hassan Manikya Raju (Bellevue, Wash.), Seema Yadav (Seattle), Stebin Kodiamkunnel Sevichan (Everett, Wash.), Michiel David De Pooter (Seattle) and Francesco Furno (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user provides a question to be answered from detailed, dense or otherwise complex documents to a processing system that converts the question to a structured query language query and generates an e...