ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,511, issued on May 26, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory-based function calling for logical formulation and inference for large language models" was invented by Tarun Raheja (Philadelphia), Advit Deepak (San Jose, Calif.), William Healy (Riverside, Conn.), Jayanth Srinivasa (San Jose, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas), Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Foster City, Calif.) and Raunak Sinha (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method comprises: parsing, using a large language model, a constraint satisfaction problem statement into a sequence of sentences corresponding to a pluralit...