ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,137, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Digital content generation with in-prompt hallucination management for conversational agent" was invented by Wenqiong Liu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anshu Basia (Fremont, Calif.), Joseph Michael Esposito (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Faezeh Hajiaghajani Memar (San Francisco), Alice Hing-Yee Leung (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pierre Y. Monestie (Half Moon Bay, Calif.), Rohan Rajiv (Danville, Calif.), Sameer Ulhas Shenai (San Jose, Calif.) and Haichao Wei (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may provide a prompt to a first machine learning ...