US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 7 for "Detecting computer-generated hallucinations using progressive scope-of-analysis enlargement" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,867, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting computer-generated hallucinations using progressive scope-of-analysis enlargement" was invented by Ahmed Elgohary Ghoneim (Redmond, Wash.) and Pengcheng He (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique determines whether a target item is adequately supported by a source item, and therefore likely free of hallucinations. The technique operates by progressively expanding a scope of source content to be considered when determining whether an individual target part of the target item has support in the source item. For i...