ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,538, issued on March 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Theme based font search" was invented by Akshay Mallipeddi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include methods and systems for providing a theme based font search in a manner that bypasses the latency limitations inherent to large language models and ensures domain-relevant answers. An exemplary method can include inputting a font category to a compact model to generate a font tag embedding and inputting a search query to the compact model to generate a query embedding. A distance measure is determined...