ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,612, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Artificial intelligence techniques for connections networking" was invented by Lakshman Vairavan Somasundaram (San Francisco), Arvind Murali Mohan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Adam Jason Kaplan (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Nicholas Theodore Pezarro (San Francisco) and Xincen Yu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence techniques for connections networking are described. In one embodiment, for example, a method comprises receiving a natural language query to group a set of entities by a first machine learning model trained on a pub...