ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,980, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Large language model privacy preservation system" was invented by Gennaro Anthony Cuomo (Raleigh, N.C.), Blaine H. Dolph (Western Springs, Ill.) and Christopher Hay (Great Horkesley, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for a large language model privacy preservation system. Aspects include receiving prompt data from a user device. Aspects further include generating pre-processed prompt data using the prompt data from the user device. Aspects also include identifying a category for the pre-processed prom...