ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,816, issued on April 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Reducing latency by processing parts of a language model query in parallel" was invented by Sayan Dev Pathak (Kirkland, Wash.), Osama Abuelsorour (Menlo Park, Calif.), Christopher Hakan Basoglu (Everett, Wash.), Harini Kesavamoorthy (Bellevue, Wash.), Girish Milind Mahajan (Redmond, Wash.), Salman Mohammad Quazi (Mountain View, Calif.) and Valeriy Viktorovich Kirshin (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique partitions a user's original query into plural smaller component queries, each of which has a common part and an inst...