ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,217, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Instabase Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Systems and methods for agent-controlled 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 controlling retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) using a set of vector databases are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: convert content within sets of electronic files into sets of vector embeddings stored in vector databases; receive user input representing a user query; g...