ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,975, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Text generation refinement" was invented by Jinglun Cai (Seattle), Jie Yuan (Bellevue, Wash.), Monica Lakshmi Sunkara (San Francisco), Hang Su (Redmond, Wash.), Saab Mansour (San Jose, Calif.), Igor Shalyminov (San Jose, Calif.) and Katrin Kirchhoff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for text generation refinement are described. In some examples, a predicted text output is generated, wherein the predicted text output is selected from a plurality of predicted texts generated in response to the request, wherein the generating comprises: predict...