ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,199, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Prompt discovery with attention refinement" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Kavitha Hassan Yogaraj (Bangalore, India), Amit Kumar Raha (Barrackpore, India) and Christian Eggenberger-Wang (Wil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment senses a sequence, responsive to the sensed sequence, segments the sensed sequence into a prompt and text. The embodiment generates an attention embedding representative of the text and computes an attention weight based on the attention embedding. The embodiment generates a prompt...