ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,946, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system of automatically generating help documentation" was invented by Tomasz Lukasz Religa (Seattle) and Max Wang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for automatically generating help content for a functionality of an application includes examining application data and a user query identifying the functionality and generating a prompt for submission to an artificial intelligence (AI) model based on the application data and the user query. An automatically generated help article on how to perform the functi...