US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 19 for "Constrained directive determination" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,676, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Constrained directive determination" was invented by Andrew Michael Smith (Burien, Wash.), Michael Dillon (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Wei Lee (San Jose, Calif.) and Sharon Alpert (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are systems and methods that guide an LLM in determining when to initiate a request to a user for clarification and when to cause execution of a determined directive based on an utterance. At each pass through the LLM it may be determined whether the probability score and/or confidence score of a determined token exceeds respec...