US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 11 for "Visual chain-of-thought reasoning for multimodal language models" (American, Belgian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,434, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Visual chain-of-thought reasoning for multimodal language models" was invented by Jose Pablo Cambronero Sanchez (Washington), Mukul Singh (Delhi, India), Sumit Gulwani (Sammamish, Wash.), Vu Minh Le (Redmond, Wash.) and Gust Verbruggen (Keerbergen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimodal assistant system receives a multimodal input that includes an input image and a natural language task description which describes a structured task to perform based on the input image. The system generates a visual Chain-of-Thought (v-CoT) prompt...