ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,015, issued on May 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative summarization dialog-based information retrieval system" was invented by Aparna Krishnan (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher Wright Lloyd II (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Jeremy K. Owen (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher J. Fong (San Mateo, Calif.), Suman Sundaresh (Los Altos, Calif.), Lavish Shah (New York), Muhammad Basit Khurram (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michaela Jillings (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include generating a search prompt based on an input portion of an online dialog involving a us...