ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,208, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Computer-based interactive prompt variation generator" was invented by Qian Pan (Canton, Mass.), Hyo Jin Do (Cambridge, Mass.), Zahra Ashktorab (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael Desmond (White Plains, N.Y.), James Johnson (Somerville, Mass.) and Casey Dugan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to improve prompt variations to enhance user-based experiences while interacting with artificial intelligent (AI) systems, embodiments generate variations of the prompts associated with the initial input by automatically leveraging ...