ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,238, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Record snapshot" was invented by Minhaj Khan (New York), Avanthika Ramesh (San Francisco), Karen Yin (San Jose, Calif.) and Jan Adriaan Kruger (Fuquay-Varina, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for implementing grounding of prompt templates using record snapshot. An embodiment operates by parsing a data record to generate a hierarchical tree graph of context data corresponding to a prompt template selected based on a type of a prompt request, and the data record is identified based o...