ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,821, issued on March 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative system for writing entity recommendations" was invented by Abhas Tandon (Bengaluru, India), Priyanka Jain Rajendra Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Ashish Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Rakhi Kumari (Bengaluru, India) and Kartikeya Shivanand Puri (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses include receiving input of a selection from a client device providing a graphical user interface and a recommendation interface, where the input of the selection includes an explicit attribute. Implicit attribute sugge...