ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,387, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Task decomposition for LLM integrations with spreadsheet environments" was invented by Ehab Sobhy Deraz (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for the integration of spreadsheet environments with LLM services. In an implementation, an application service receives a natural language input from a user associated with a spreadsheet hosted by a spreadsheet application. The application service generates a prompt based on the natural language input which includes asking a large language model (LLM) service t...