ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,740, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Determining generative search results document for queries using generative artificial intelligence models and arbitration models" was invented by Mohamed Salman Ismail Gadit (San Jose, Calif.), Samer Hassan Hassan (Saratoga, Calif.), Andrew Peter Oakley (Seattle), Nathan James Chalmers (Seattle), Ronak Ashwinkumar Shah (Redmond, Wash.), Doran Chakraborty (Sunnyville, Calif.), Aparna Rajaraman (Woodinville, Wash.), Lile Palma Hattori (Kirkland, Wash.), Rami Sayar (Redmond, Wash.), Vera Aster Brubaker (Kirkland, Wash.) and Matthew Yoshimi Cedeno (Chula Vista, Calif.).

According to the abstr...