ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,050, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using generative AI models for content searching and generation of confabulated search results" was invented by Andrew Donald Yates (San Francisco), Yash Narayan (San Carlos, Calif.) and Darrow Hartman (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems provide content searching and retrieval using generative artificial intelligence (AI) Models. The system is configured to receive a user search for content, media or item listings. The user search is provided to a generative AI based search sub-system and to a traditional search sub-system. A first search res...