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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2024
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
José Pablo Cambronero Sánchez, Washington, DC (US);
Mukul Singh, Delhi, IN;
Sumit Gulwani, Sammamish, WA (US);
Vu Minh Le, Redmond, WA (US);
Gust Verbruggen, Keerbergen, BE;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A multimodal assistant system receives a multimodal input that includes an input image and a natural language task description which describes a structured task to perform based on the input image. The system generates a visual Chain-of-Thought (v-CoT) prompt by combining the input image, the natural language task description, and a v-CoT instruction, the v-CoT instruction defining a series of steps for the MLLM to take in generating an output. The series of steps includes instructing the MLLM to describe relevant information derived from the image and relevant image artifacts required to generate the output, instructing the MLLM to reason over the relevant information and relevant image artifacts to determine a solution for the task, and including the solution in the output.