ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,239, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Malicious prompt management for large language models" was invented by Itsik Yizhak Mantin (Shoham, Israel), Ron Bitton (Or-Yehuda, Israel), Guy Shtar (Petah Tikva, Israel), Yael Mathov Gome (Be-er Sheva, Israel) and Henry Venturelli (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a server from a user device, a user prompt segment to a large language model (LLM), obtaining an additional prompt segment from a prompt data source, identifying a electronic address in the prompt segment, replacing the electronic address with a placeho...