ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,277, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Entity management for language models" was invented by Hadrien Glaude (Boston), Sayan Chowdhury (Waltham, Mass.), Pavel Aleksandrovich Rusin (Redmond, Wash.), Anushree Venkatesh (San Mateo, Calif.), Imre Attila Kiss (Arlington, Mass.) and James J Logan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and techniques are generally described for entity management. In various examples, a natural language request comprising a reference to an entity may be received. Resolved entity data associated with the entity may be determined. Identifier data associ...