ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,461, issued on June 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Collaborative development of machine learning models on specific concepts" was invented by Fereshte Khani (San Francisco) and Marco Tulio Correia Ribeiro (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method and for collaboratively developing one or more concepts in a machine-learning (ML) model includes receiving a set of user generated data points and training a local ML model based on the user generated data points. A first prompt is generated based on the set of user generated data points and transmitted to a large language model (...