US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 8 for "Text compression with predicted continuations" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,680, issued on April 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Text compression with predicted continuations" was invented by Ronny Lempel (Redmond, Wash.) and Chenyan Xiong (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for text compression comprises recognizing a prefix string of one or more text characters preceding a target string of a plurality of text characters to be compressed. The prefix string is provided to a natural language generation (NLG) model configured to output one or more predicted continuations each having an associated rank. If the one or more predicted continuations incl...