ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,358, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to CITIBANK N.A..

"Hierarchical cascade architecture of language models for multi-stage query classification and agent routing" was invented by Ganesh Prasad Bhat (New Jersey, N.J.), James Myers (New York), Sourabh Deb (Tampa, Fla.), Jason Engelbrecht (London), Zheyu Wang (Shanghai) and Haolin Jin (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods disclosed herein orchestrate task execution among autonomous (or semi-autonomous) AI agentic models ("agents") responsive to a received query by using a hierarchical model cascade to classify queries into agent domains. Queries are proces...