ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,701, issued on June 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Building and using target-based sentiment models" was invented by Vishal Anand (Redmond, Wash.), Ananya Mishra (Seattle), Pramodith Ballapuram (Dublin) and Cheng Wu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to training and utilizing a generative language model that is constrained by a predetermined template that is used to train the generative language model. Once trained, customer data is accessed and transmitted to an evaluation component associated with the generative language model. The generative lan...