ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,765, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Executing a client model using a task prompt produced by a main system" was invented by Mohsen Fayyaz (Berlin), Ayyoob Imanigooghari (Munich) and Eric Chris Wolfgang Sommerlade (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique executes a client machine-trained model ("client model") on a client device. In operation, the client device submits a description of a task to be performed by the client device to a network-accessible main system. The main system uses a main-system machine-trained model ("main-system model") to produce...