ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,710, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Recommendation system using retrieval-augmented generation" was invented by Tanay Varshney (San Jose, Calif.), Kari Ann Briski (San Jose, Calif.), George Joseph Conway (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Davide Marco Onofrio (San Francisco), Annie Prasanna Surla (San Jose, Calif.) and Shashank Verma (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, a technique for recommending items is disclosed that includes receiving a request to recommend an item. The technique further includes generating, based on the request, one or more query tags, the one or more...