ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,371, issued on April 21, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"Chatbot using retrieval-augmented generation" was invented by Matt Rabito (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Yunshen Chen (Lexington, Mass.) and Chenguang Peng (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can include one or more memory devices that can store instructions thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a natural language query for information associated with a first entity, generate a vector embedding based on the natural language query, search a vector database having a plurality of vector...