US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 2 for "Slot extraction for intents using large language models" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,660, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Slot extraction for intents using large language models" was invented by Rahul Pandita (Arvada, Colo.), Abhishek Masand (Ithaca, N.Y.), Priyankar Kumar (New Delhi) and Aneesh Bose (West Bengal, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing contextualized intent and slot extraction using a large language model (LLM) are disclosed. The LLM is generally pre-trained on an arbitrary corpus of language training data. A prompt is provided to the LLM. This prompt includes a limited number of prompt phrases. The prompt phrases share ...