ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,823, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Predicate-guided preparation 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 receives a natural language input from a user associated with a spreadsheet. The application g...