US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Generative collaborative publishing system" (New York, California, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,740, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative collaborative publishing system" was invented by Alana M. Smith (New York), Lakshman Somasundaram (San Francisco), Saarth Shah (Hoboken, N.J.), Laura Lorenzetti Soper (Hoboken, N.J.), Adam Kaplan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Manas Somaiya (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yao Pan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include, in response to input of a first prompt to a generative language model, outputting, by the generative language model, a first document including a first piece of writing, whe...