US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 15 for "Cycle-consistent refinement of prompts provided to models" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,559, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cycle-consistent refinement of prompts provided to models" was invented by Maurice Diesendruck (Bellevue, Wash.), Jie Zhao (Redmond, Wash.), Jianzhe Lin (Redmond, Wash.), Mingyang Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Shima Imani (Sammamish, Wash.) and Gayathri Mahalingam (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure presents a technique for enhancing the performance of models such as large multimodal models (LMMs) without retraining or fine-tuning. This technique includes an iterative refinement process implemented by three main component...