ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,671, issued on June 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adapting embeddings for custom retrieval" was invented by Ashish Tiwari (Sammamish, Wash.), Yasharth Bajpai (Lucknow, India), Priyanshu Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Sumit Gulwani (Sammamish, Wash.) and Anirudh Vishal Khatry (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system implements receiving, via a user interface of a client device, a query to a large language model (LLM) working in conjunction with an embedding model comprising a corpus of artifacts. The system further implements converting the query into a query embedding...