ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,828, issued on July 1, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Image analysis by prompting of machine-learned models using chain of thought" was invented by Jason Weng Wei (Mountain View, Calif.), Dengyong Zhou (Redmond, Wash.), Dale Eric Schuurmans (Edmonton, Canada), Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maarten Paul Bosma (Cupertino, Calif.), Ed Huai-Hsin Chi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Olivier Jean Andre Bousquet (Zurich, Switzerland), Le Hou (South Setauket, N.Y.), Nathan Scales (Mountain View, Calif.), David J. Bieber (New York), Charles Aloysius Sutton (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nathanael Scharli (Mountain View, Calif.), Augustus Quadrozzi Odena (San Francisco), Sharan Narang (M...