ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,854, issued on July 14, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"System and method for cost and carbon aware large language model cache management" was invented by Kaushik Amar Das (Guwahati, India), Sankar Narayan Das (Barrackpore, India), Kuntal Dey (Birbhum, India), Samdyuti Suri (Faridabad, India), Vikrant Kaulgud (Bangalore, India), Teresa Sheausan Tung (Los Angeles) and Adam Patten Burden (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for cost and carbon aware large language model (LLM) cache management is disclosed. The method includes: determining whether a prompt matching an input...