ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,896, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative graph-enhanced information retrieval" was invented by Zhentao Xu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Mark Jerome U. Cruz (San Jose, Calif.), Matthew R. Guevara (Pleasanton, Calif.), Tie Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Manasi R. Deshpande (Fremont, Calif.), Xiaofeng Wang (Princeton Junction, N.J.) and Zheng Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include parsing a query into a first query portion and at least one second query portion, matching an embedding of the at least one second query portion wi...