ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,882, issued on March 24, was assigned to ATOBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Moraga, Calif.).

"Evolutionary thought caching for multi-stage language model systems" was invented by Brian Galvin (Silverdale, Wash.) and Alan McCord (Forney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for efficient natural language processing combines large and small language models with a reasoning cache architecture. Input data is processed by a first large language model to generate structured thoughts with associated latent representations, which are cached for future use. Specialized agents perform domain-specific operations on cached thoughts ...