ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,780, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Hybrid retrieval augmented generation for rich document queries using a large language model" was invented by Jianbing Han (Los Gatos, Calif.), Shujian Liu (Newton, Mass.), Ying Lu (Cerritos, Calif.), Kai Ni (Sammamish, Wash.), Jun Tan (Pittsburgh) and Wang Tian (Hefei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing hybrid retrieval augmented generation for rich document queries using a large language model ("LLM") are disclosed. In an example method, a computing system receives documents which are added to databases. The computing...