ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,136, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Instabase Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Systems and methods for access control for federated retrieval-augmented generation" was invented by Shaunak Godbole (San Francisco), Shih Ping Chang (San Francisco), Clemens Mewald (Lafayette, Calif.) and Anant Bhardwaj (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing access control for federated retrieval-augmented generation (FRAG) using a set of vector databases are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive user input representing a user query; verify whether the user has access to particular electronic files; generate agen...