ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,639, issued on March 24, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Input-output token savings using small language models" was invented by Natalie Bar Eliyahu (Tel Aviv, Israel), Shon Mendelson (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hadar Lackritz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gal Elgavish (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "At least one processor may receive a query, wherein processing the query comprises at least one easy task and at least one complicated task. The at least one processor may process the at least one easy task using a small language model (SLM), thereby obtaining at least one SLM processing result. The at least one ...