ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,144, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Loop Now Technologies Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Streaming a segmented artificial intelligence virtual assistant with probabilistic buffering" was invented by Edwin Chiu (Cupertino, Calif.), Nikola Dichev (San Diego), Shi Feng (East Palo Alto, Calif.), Wu-Hsi Li (Somerville, Mass.), Hong-Ming Tseng (Toronto), Jeremiah Kevin Tu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Xiaochen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for video streaming are disclosed. A plurality of audio files is accessed. The audio files comprise answers from a large language model to a user requesting information on products ...