ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,533, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GEN DIGITAL INC. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Protecting private information during large language module interactions" was invented by Lei Gu (Bedford, Mass.) and Iskander Sanchez Rola (Antibes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for protecting private information during large language module (LLM) interactions. In one embodiment, an LLM gateway may route user prompts through a client server that possesses its own access credentials to an LLM server. The access credentials of the client server may be separate from and unassociated with the user. The client server may access the LLM ...