ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,807, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for hybrid lexical-vector retrieval in retrieval-augmented generation models" was invented by Yu Zhang (Hempstead, N.Y.), Jing Shen (Great Neck, N.Y.), Huifeng Jason Li (Highland Park, N.J.), Taotao Jiang (Weehawken, N.J.) and Monika Nica (Ridgefield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods perform hybrid lexical-vector retrieval in a retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) framework. A user query is pre-processed using named-entity recognition, date standardization, and optional out-of-domain detection. The syste...