US Patent Issued to Google on July 1 for "Providing generative answers including citations to source documents" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,366, issued on July 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Providing generative answers including citations to source documents" was invented by Zachary Dicklin (Boulder, Colo.), Michael Colagrosso (Arvada, Colo.), Remy Burger (Boulder, Colo.), Michael Bendersky (Cupertino, Calif.) and Brandon Vargo (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include pre-processing documents in cloud storage using query embeddings, providing personalized prompts to users based on documents in cloud storage, real-time anticipation of user interest in information contained in documents in cloud storage, and provid...