ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,545, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Length-based large language models" was invented by Lucas Ross (Royal Oak, Mich.) and Diana Mann (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to receive a prompt for a large language model, the prompt including an input text and a target length. The large language model can generate an output text that includes a number of words equal to the target length within a user determined tolerance based on a length guidance embedding vector ...