US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 9 for "Large language model utterance augmentation" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,748, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Large language model utterance augmentation" was invented by Rahul Pandita (Arvada, Colo.), Abhishek Masand (Ithaca, N.Y.), Priyankar Kumar (New Delhi) and Aneesh Bose (West Bengal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for causing an LLM to generate semantically related phrase variations for an identified phrase are disclosed. An LLM that is generally pre-trained on an arbitrary corpus of language training data is accessed. Seed data is fed as input to the LLM. The seed data includes multiple phrases that are semantically related an...