US Patent Issued to Shopify on May 12 for "Similarity-based generative AI output filtering" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,108, issued on May 12, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"Similarity-based generative AI output filtering" was invented by Neil Leonard Padgett (Toronto) and Andra Adams (Vankleek Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating output content using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model based on an input. A similarity-assessment layer at the output of the generative AI model determines a similarity measure for the output content vis-a-vis pre-existing items in a repository. The similarity measure is compared to a threshold value and, responsive to the comparison indicating excessive similar...