ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,669, issued on May 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Generative collaborative publishing system" was invented by Manas Somaiya (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lakshman Somasundaram (San Francisco), Laura Lorenzetti Soper (Hoboken, N.J.), Yao Pan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nicholas Pezarro (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include creating a first set of title prompts by applying a first set of title prompt templates to a seed, where the seed includes a topic descriptor, applying a first generative language model to the first set of title prompts, outpu...