ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,451, issued on July 8, was assigned to Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Method and system for protecting and removing private information used in large language models" was invented by Vijay Madisetti (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Arshdeep Bahga (Chandigarh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for removing unauthorized information associations from an LLM that is pre-trained on training data comprising unauthorized data (UD), the method including receiving a list of one or more UD instance-UD association pairs between real UD instances and UD associations identified for the real UD instances in the training data, generating one o...