ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,550, issued on April 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Natural language driven planning with machine learning models" was invented by Amir H. Abdi (Vancouver, Canada), Nitin Kumar Goel (Redmond, Wash.), Daniel Lee Mace (Bellevue, Wash.) and William Blum (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning models are used to generate a plan that responds to a user request. The plan includes one or more skills selected from a list of available skills. The prompt may be written in natural language, enabling the user to express their intent without having to know which skills are availa...