ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,321, issued on May 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated selection of foundation models for client-specific generative artificial intelligence needs" was invented by Ahamed Jalaldeen Shahul Hamid (Bangalore, India), Mukundan Sundararajan (Bangalore, India), Deepak Malik (Gurgaon, India) and Hemant Singh (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatically recommending appropriate foundation models is provided. A list of recommended foundation models, along with a corresponding ranking for each respective foundation model in the list is generated based on a corresponding attribute...