ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,512, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Methods and systems for prompting large language model to generate formatted output" was invented by Russ Maschmeyer (Berkeley, Calif.), David Goligorsky (Stockholm), Daniel Beauchamp (Toronto) and Benjamin Michel (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a technical solution that enables a trained large language model (LLM) to generate a revised text in a manner that enables the LLM to preserve formatting that was present in the original text. When a text-editing instruction is received for a text passage having a formatting tag, the text p...