ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,708, issued on June 23, was assigned to OpenAI OpCo LLC (San Francisco).

"Multi-modal response generation" was invented by Prafulla Dhariwal (San Francisco), Gabriel Goh (San Francisco) and Ishaan Gulrajani (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology pertains to systems and methods for improving efficiency in multi-modal AI models, particularly when handling long token sequences. Aspects of the present technology facilitate attention across large token sets (e.g., making up an image) by using border tokens output by an AI model at the beginning of respective rows of a set of image tokens. Thus, the AI model c...