ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,282, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Natural language processing applications using large language models" was invented by Ryan Leary (Woodstock, Ga.) and Jonathan Cohen (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches presented herein can provide for the performance of specific types of tasks using a large model, without a need to retrain the model. Custom endpoints can be trained for specific types of tasks, as may be indicated by the specification of one or more guidance mechanisms. A guidance mechanism can be added to or used along with a request to guide the model in performi...