ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,876, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Conversational network assurance using large language models" was invented by Gregory Mermoud (Venthone, Switzerland), Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Combloux, France), Pierre-Andre Savalle (Rueil-Malmaison, France), Eduard Schornig (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Michal Wladyslaw Garcarz (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device receives, at a first large language model executed by a device, textual input from a user of a network regarding a networking issue in the network. The device issues, by the first large language model and t...