US Patent Issued to Lark Technologies on Aug. 12 for "Controlling artificial intelligence chatbots" (California, Colorado, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,774, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Lark Technologies Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Controlling artificial intelligence chatbots" was invented by Yong Lin (Mountain View, Calif.), Christine Morley (Bend, Ore.), Kika Arias (San Francisco), Viveka Pitter (Los Angeles), Jeff Zira (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and W. Wesley Pasfield (Wheat Ridge, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system uses a large language model (LLM) to implement a controlled artificial intelligence chat environment. The system may control interaction with the LLM using prompt templates that may be selected, customized, and/or modified based on information known ab...