US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 26 for "Identifying hallucinations in large language model output" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,355, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identifying hallucinations in large language model output" was invented by William Blum (Bellevue, Wash.), Amir Hossein Abdi (Gatineau, Canada) and Martin Fontaine (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of generating verification data for a query result provided by a large language model, LLM, includes generating a prompt for the large language model. The prompt contains a verification request for a query, the query including query text and input data from which the query result can be derived. The veri...