ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,604, issued on May 5, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Prompt tuning using one or more machine-learned models" was invented by Brian David Lester (Mountain View, Calif.), Rami Eid Sammour Al-Rfou (Mountain View, Calif.) and Noah Jg Constant (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for prompt tuning can leverage semantic searching for determining similar prompts to use for retraining. A prompt can be generated then searched to find the similar prompts. Data related to the similar prompts can then be utilized for prompt tuning. Moreover, systems and methods for prompt tuning can generate a...