ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,379, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Web transformers" was invented by Xiaodong Fan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Elbio Renato Torres Abib (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein relates to resource-efficient systems and methods for providing customized chatbot functionality through a web browser, without requiring each entity to separately host, train, and/or configure its own generative AI model. More specifically, custom AI metadata is included in the data package for a web resource. The custom AI metadata is extracted and used to enable custo...