US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on July 28 for "Multi-stage multi-hop natural language and model execution plan generation" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,230, issued on July 28, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-stage multi-hop natural language and model execution plan generation" was invented by Pramod Kumar Sharma (Seattle) and Arindam Mitra (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine learning models are used to invoke a sequence of tools in response to a user request. A list of available tools is culled before a machine learning model selects from the remaining tools to generate a plan. The plan, which describes tool invocations in natural language, is then converted to code that can programmatically invoke the tools. In some con...