ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,758, issued on July 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Nested model structures for the performance of complex tasks" was invented by Mohit Sewak (Maharashtra, India) and Ravi Kiran Reddy Poluri (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure is directed to systems, methods, and computer storage media, for, among other things, employing nested model structures to enforce compliance, within a computational system, to at least one policy. One method includes receiving a digital record that encodes content. A plurality of models (e.g., integrated models and/or model droplets) is employ...