US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Automatically labeling items using a machine-trained language model" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,885, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automatically labeling items using a machine-trained language model" was invented by Daniel Arthur Sommerfield (Mercer Island, Wash.), Weizhu Chen (Kirkland, Wash.) and Adarsh Ramanathan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented labeling technique generates a task description that describes a labeling task to be given to a language model. The technique then sends a prompt to the language model, which includes the task description and a particular item to be labeled. The technique receives a response provided by t...