US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 22 for "Chain of thought reasoning for LLM integrations in spreadsheet environments" (British, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,336, issued on July 22, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Chain of thought reasoning for LLM integrations in spreadsheet environments" was invented by Daniel Fabian (Wabern, Switzerland), Rasika Mudumbai Chakravarthy (Redmond, Wash.), Carina Suzana Negreanu (Cambridge, Great Britain) and John Herbert Martin Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology is disclosed herein for the integration of spreadsheet environments and LLM services. In an implementation, an application service inputs a first prompt to a LLM service to provide a formula suggestion for a spreadsheet...