ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,374, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Entity driven templates for customized user prompts" was invented by Simon Chun Ho Tam (Calgary, Canada), Vincent Liding Wong (Redmond, Wash.), Wirithphol Ek-Ularnpun (San Mateo, Calif.), Chujie He (Bellevue, Wash.) and Noelle Beaujon (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions are disclosed that provide entity driven templates for customized user prompts. Examples surface suggested prompts to a user to guide a chat with a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, so that the user is able to receive more accurate and more relevan...