ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,426, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Plug-in selection in virtual assistant platforms" was invented by Sanket Rajiv Shah (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In virtual assistant platforms that provide access to a plurality of plug-ins, plug-in selection based on comparisons between high-dimensional embeddings of user prompts and high-dimensional embeddings of the example prompts contained in plug-in definitions can cause "collisions"-that is, selection of the wrong plug-ins-if the plug-in-definitions of the intended and erroneously selected plug-ins are too similar....