ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,696, issued on April 8, was assigned to AtomBeam Technologies Inc. (Moraga, Calif.).

"System and method for training and operating large language models using codewords" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention presents an optimized approach for training and operating Large Language Models (LLMs) using codewords. By converting traditional token-based LLMs to codeword-based systems, the method achieves significant efficiency gains. The process involves tokenizing training data and assigning codewords to tokens. LLMs are then trained and operated using these compact codewords instead...