ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,418, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Efficient multi-turn generative AI model suggested message generation" was invented by Susan Marie Grimshaw (Kirkland, Wash.), Poonam Ganesh Hattangady (Seattle), Caleb Whitmore (San Francisco), Tashfeen Ahmed (Dublin), Ravi Teja Koganti (Bellevue, Wash.) and Michael Ivan Borysenko (Brighton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model using a multi-turn process to generate a suggested draft reply to a selected message. A first turn of the multi-turn process uses a short...