ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,354, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Automated notebook completion using sequence-to-sequence transformer" was invented by Colin Bruce Clement (Seattle), Shubham Chandel (Bellevue, Wash.), Guillermo Serrato Castilla (Seattle) and Neelakantan Sundaresan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for generating an automatic interactive digital notebook completion model. A method can include receiving notebook content of an interactive digital notebook, the notebook content including a markdown cell followed by a co...