US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Producing calibrated confidence estimates for open-ended answers by generative artificial intelligence models" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,809, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Producing calibrated confidence estimates for open-ended answers by generative artificial intelligence models" was invented by Shizhuo Zhang (Champaign, Ill.), Xuchao Zhang (Sammamish, Wash.), Chetan Bansal (Seattle), Pedro Henrique Bragioni Las-Casas (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Rodrigo Lopes Cancado Fonseca (Bothell, Wash.) and Saravanakumar Rajmohan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A confidence estimation tool uses a calibrated confidence mapping model to estimate confidence for a model-generated candidate root cause. The tool us...