ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,653, issued on July 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for defending against prompt leakage attacks" was invented by Divyansh Agarwal (San Francisco), Alexander R. Fabbri (New York), Philippe Laban (New York), Shafiq Rayhan Joty (San Jose, Calif.) and Chien-Sheng Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a method of sanitizing a user input. A system receives the user input, and may retrieve one or more documents from a database based on the user input. The system then generates, via a first neural network based language model, a sanitized versi...