US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 15 for "Knowledge base question-answering system utilizing a large language model output in re-ranking" (Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,038, issued on July 15, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Knowledge base question-answering system utilizing a large language model output in re-ranking" was invented by Chuanyun Zang (Cumming, Ga.) and Mark Austin (Lucas, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include systems and methods, for example, including receiving a user input in natural language, retrieving a first answer including a list of a first number of documents relevant to the user input by searching indexed documents in a knowledge base, applying the first answer to a large language model reader, resultin...