# AI Times Column: Part 11

AI Times has published Yongduck Kim's analysis of OpenAI's patent on invoking external APIs through natural-language instructions.

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HOME / NEWS & INSIGHTS NEWS & INSIGHTS AI Times Column: Part 11 AI Times has published Yongduck Kim's analysis of OpenAI's patent on invoking external APIs through natural-language instructions. IPLEX News 2025.05.20 published IPLEX 1 min read AI Times has published Yongduck Kim's analysis of OpenAI's patent on invoking external APIs through natural-language instructions. This time, the patent is about a technology that automatically calls an external API with the user's natural language input and receives the result and responds again with natural language. Based on U.S. patent US 12,124,823 B2 registered by OpenAI, LLM learns the structure and function of the API based on the manifest file published by the external API provider, and then selects and calls the appropriate API according to the user's instructions to process the result. Yongduck Kim patent attorney explained the core technology of the patent in an easy-to-understand manner and how it can be used in a variety of industries, including e-commerce, healthcare, and business automation. You can find the full article at the link below. Read the column Read the Korean source This article reflects the information available when it was published. Contact us to discuss your circumstances. Discuss this topic ↗ All articles TALK TO IPLEX Discuss your IP questions We consider your technology and business needs together. ↗ Contact us Newer New Book: OpenAI’s Patent Strategy and the Global AI Patent Race ↗ Older OpenAI Patent Analysis by an AI Patent Attorney Published in AI Times ↗ Related insights IPLEX News 2026.08.20 AI Paper Analysis: In-Place Test-Time Training Most large language models are deployed with fixed weights after training. Even when a user supplies a long document, the model processes its tokens within the attention mechanism and context window without directly adapting its weights to that document. In-Place Test-Time Training explores an alternative... ↗ Read article IPLEX News 2026.08.03 Column: C3.ai Patents and the Future of Enterprise AI Agents AI Times, a Korean AI publication, has published Managing Partner Yongduck Kim's column on generative AI patents. ↗ Read article IPLEX News 2026.07.29 Ideas Become Business Assets When They Become Rights Startup IP work must align protection before disclosure, payment within the project's funding period and the documentation needed for expense reconciliation. At IPLEX, Managing Partner Yongduck Kim analyzes a startup's technology, brand and product appearance to guide patent, trademark and design applications... ↗ Read article

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