ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,400, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Autonomous process execution for large language model function buttons" was invented by Hiten Shah (Redwood City, Calif.), Richard Chan (Flushing, N.Y.) and Theo Richardson (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes systems that generate a selection of large language model (LLM) function buttons in a floating widget within a web browser of a client device. The disclosed systems can generate or otherwise select the LLM function buttons to include based on context of a webpage within the web browser. Responsive to detecting an indication of an i...