ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,320, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL GROUP INC. (New York).

"Retrieval augmentation system for unstructured tabular documents" was invented by Lei Zhang (New York) and Christopher Allen Cirelli (Roswell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for extracting a number of data elements from one or more data sources. A text representing tables using a markdown language is extracted from spreadsheets and or other grid-based documents. The text is provided to a language model with a prompt. The prompt may be a chain-of-thoughts prompt. The prompt includes several requests and/or steps that cause the language ...