ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,664, issued on July 1, was assigned to OpenAI OpCo LLC (San Francisco).

"Interactions with a generative response engine during a long running task" was invented by Noah Deutsch (San Francisco) and Benjamin Zweig (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology provides an interaction paradigm whereby a prompt source can continue to interact with the generative response engine through a conversational interface while the generative response engine is processing a task, especially a long-running task. A prompt source can provide additional prompts to modify or clarify the task. The prompt source can also provide addi...