US Patent Issued to Oracle International on March 3 for "Topic maps for constrained retrieval augmented generation" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,782, issued on March 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Topic maps for constrained retrieval augmented generation" was invented by Jean-Francois Verrier (Rognes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current generative AI systems using large language models (LLMs) face challenges including non-deterministic outputs, hallucinations, outdated information, and resource-intensive training. This disclosure introduces topic maps for constrained retrieval augmented generation to address these issues. The technique leverages existing LLMs while constraining outputs to specific, user-defined content domai...