ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,626, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Quality assurance for digital technologies using large language models" was invented by Reid Allen Pryzant (Seattle), Yin Tat Lee (Seattle), Chenguang Zhu (Issaquah, Wash.), Sebastien Bubeck (Seattle), Ronen Eldan (Seattle), Yuwei Fang (Redmond, Wash.), Dan Iter (Cedar Park, Texas), Yichong Xu (Bellevue, Wash.), Yuanzhi Li (Monroe, Wash.), Yi Zhang (Seattle), Lijuan Qin (Redmond, Wash.), Nanshan Zeng (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xuedong Huang (Yarrow Point, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing quali...