US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 27 for "Using single vector and multi-vector embeddings to perform a scalable search" (American, Norwegian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,627, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using single vector and multi-vector embeddings to perform a scalable search" was invented by Knut Magne Risvik (Trondheim, Norway), Philip Bell Adams (Seattle), Jingwen Lu (Carnation, Wash.), Nikhil Surendra Rao (Belmont, Calif.), Li Tan (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrija Antonijevic (Bellevue, Wash.) and Xiaolong Huang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for executing a search query using a combination of single-vector searching and multi-vector comparing to more efficiently and a...