ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,358, issued on March 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Supplemental content and generative language models" was invented by Eren Manavoglu (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Debapriya Basu (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system includes a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform several acts. The acts include providing a prompt to a generative language model, where the generative language model generates output based upon the prompt, identifies text in the output that is to be associated with a supplemental...