ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,946, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Auto-assignment of new entities in a hierarchical structure with automatic hierarchy extensions using generative artificial intelligence" was invented by Yu Zhao (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an automatic assignment of new entities in an existing hierarchical structure by leveraging retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) that improves the performance of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model by generating a suggested hierarchical structure. For an automatic assignment, a user input ma...