US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 19 for "Natural language question answering" (California, Missouri, Arizona, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,478, issued on May 19, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Natural language question answering" was invented by Thuy Vu (Torrance, Calif.), Kishan K C (Santa Clara, Calif.), Toan Quoc Nguyen (Columbia, Mo.), Ankit Chadha (San Jose, Calif.), Van Minh Nguyen (Eugene, Ore.) and Zeyu Zhang (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for finetuning a large language model (LLM) are described. The finetuned LLM is generated by sequentially tuning a trained LLM using: (i) pairs of questions and corresponding context received from at least one source different from the trained LLM; and (ii) the questions without t...