ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,916, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative collaborative publishing system" was invented by Maria Iu (Berkeley, Calif.), Lakshman Somasundaram (San Francisco), Yilin Li (Jersey City, N.J.), Shweta Patira (New York), Adam Kaplan (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Sara Remi Fields (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include generating, by a generative language model, a first version of a first document, generating a second version of the first document by dividing the first version of the first document into a plurality of segments, whe...