US Patent Issued to The Toronto-Dominion Bank on Oct. 7 for "Computing systems and methods for query expansion for use in information retrieval" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,979, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Toronto-Dominion Bank (Toronto).

"Computing systems and methods for query expansion for use in information retrieval" was invented by Ilan Gofman (Toronto), Jiapeng Wu (Toronto), Jesse Cole Cresswell (Toronto), Guangwei Yu (Toronto) and Maksims Volkovs (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system uses a large language model (LLM) to generate one or more synthetic queries for each document of a set of documents. For a user query, the computing system: selects one or more of the synthetic queries related to the user query; generates an adaptive few-shot prompt to instruct the LLM ...