ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,888, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Contextualization of generative language models based on entity resource identifiers" was invented by Sujay Kumar Jauhar (Kirkland, Wash.), Silviu-Petru Cucerzan (Redmond, Wash.), Nirupama Chandrasekaran (Kirkland, Wash.), Allen Herring (Sammamish, Wash.) and Jinheon Baek (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed concepts relate to contextualization of generative language models. In some implementations, a linked entity database is populated with entity resource identifiers of entities extracted from a search log by an...