ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,377, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Additional searching based on confidence in a classification performed by a generative language machine learning model" was invented by Vesna Brown (Manotick, Canada), Maxwell Dayvson Da Silva (Brooklyn, N.Y.), David Wurtz (Paradise Valley, Ariz.), Alexandre Salle (Porto Alegre- RS, Brazil) and Christopher Bullock (Wellington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A large language model (LLM) may be used to classify an input into one of a plurality of categories. However, given the machine-learning operation of the LLM, the output of the LLM does not represent a definiti...