ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,403, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative artificial intelligence (AI) system" was invented by Nitant Singh (Sammamish, Wash.), Deepankar Shreegyan Dubey (Redmond, Wash.), Stephen Michael Kofsky (Seattle) and Qiang Du (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A generative artificial intelligence (AI) model application programming interface (API) receives a generative AI request and routes the generative AI request to a generative AI model. The generative AI model API identifies whether the generative AI request is an asynchronous or a synchronous request and id...