US Patent Issued to Shopify on March 17 for "Systems and methods for generating query responses" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,178, issued on March 17, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for generating query responses" was invented by Kasey Hemington (Ottawa), Alejandro Cantarero (Los Angeles) and Curtis Holmes (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: clustering a set of queries into first clusters; identifying, using a first large language model (LLM), queries in the first clusters that are semantically dissimilar from other queries in their cluster; clustering the queries identified as semantically dissimilar into one or more further clusters; matching a further query ...