ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,308, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Research activities through conversational user experience using multi-modal large pretrained models" was invented by Robin Abraham (Redmond, Wash.), Liang Du (Redmond, Wash.), Fahimeh Raja (Kirkland, Wash.), Wenhan Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Dustin James Stewart (Woodinville, Wash.), Lipsa Patnaik (Bellevue, Wash.), Stuart Richard Long (Kirkland, Wash.), Timothy Earnheart (Surprise, Ariz.), Sam Daniel Gammon (Alexandria, Va.), Sacha Arozarena Valladare (Kirkland, Wash.), Jedediah Miller Singer (Washington) and Henrique Dantas (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S...