ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,635, issued on April 15, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"User verification of a generative response to a multimodal query" was invented by Harshit Kharbanda (Pleasanton, Calif.), Louis Wang (San Francisco), Christopher James Kelley (Orinda, Calif.) and Jessica Lee (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal search system is described. The system can receive image data from a user device. Additionally, the system can receive a prompt associated with the image data. Moreover, the system can determine, using a computer vision model, a first object in the image data that is associated with the prompt. ...