ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,838, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Generative artificial intelligence response caching using prompt processing units" was invented by Herve Muyal (Gland, Switzerland), Chiara Troiani (Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland), Franck Bachet (Breval, France), Marcelo Yannuzzi (Nuvilly, Switzerland), Benjamin William Ryder (Lausanne, Switzerland) and Jean Andrei Diaconu (Gaillard, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a method is disclosed comprising providing a prompt to a large language model to perform a task; determining a likelihood of an outcome of the task changing o...