ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,164, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Artificial-intelligence modeling utility system" was invented by Vikram D. Gaitonde (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Michael Humke (Pearland, Texas), Michael E. Pascual (Santa Clara, Calif.), Smriti R. Ramakrishnan (Belmont, Calif.), Ajith Muralidharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yao Pan (Mountain View, Calif.), Lingjie Weng (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Keren Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Anjian Wu (Newark, Calif.) and Daniel Chi Peng Lau (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are directed to providing multilevel chained testing. A model...