US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 30 for "Detecting hallucination in a language model" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,327, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing (Redmond, Wash.).

"Detecting hallucination in a language model" was invented by Haim Somech (Ramat Gan, Israel), Adi L. Miller (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Avihoo (Matan, Israel) and Amir Kantor (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments discussed herein are directed to improving existing technologies by detecting a likelihood of hallucination arising from one-shot, few-shot, or outside knowledge contexts. For example, regarding the one-shot or few-shot contexts, some embodiments determine a set of tokens in a language model output that a...