ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,830, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Compressing information provided to a machine-trained generative model" was invented by Lesly Sadiht Miculicich Werlen (Kirkland, Wash.), Pengcheng He (Sammamish, Wash.), Yujia Xie (Redmond, Wash.), Wei Xiong (Bellevue, Wash.), Siqing Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Xun Wang (Amherst, Mass.), Elsie Prasuna Nallipogu (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yanling Xiong (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is described for compressing input information fed to a machine-trained generative model. The technique includes: receiving original input i...