ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,878, issued on June 17, was assigned to Mill Pond Research LLC (Reno, Nev.).

"Secure cross-platform orchestration and knowledge management of machine-learning models" was invented by Andrew Shimshock (San Carlos, Calif.), Peter Shimshock (Reno, Nev.) and Christopher Caen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary machine-learning-based method for generating a response to a natural-language query from an entity associated with an organization comprises: obtaining a sub-query from the natural-language query; determining if a cache associated with the organization stores a matching historical sub-query: if the cache stor...