US Patent Issued to Smith & Nephew, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics on Oct. 27 for "Retrieval augmented generation systems and methods" (Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,645, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Smith & Nephew Inc. (Memphis, Tenn.) and Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Retrieval augmented generation systems and methods" was invented by Steven Yurick (South Park, Pa.), Ashley A. Roakes (Memphis, Tenn.) and Nathan A. Netravali (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed Retrieval Augmented Generation systems and methods include a system with several components. First, a user interface generates a query for a large language model (LLM). The system features prompt generator circuitry that accesses a database containing documents, each with priorities li...