Mistral receives US patent on code-implemented tool calls in 118 days

The US Patent and Trademark Office granted Mistral AI patent number 12,670,045 B1 on June 30, 2026, for 'code implemented tool calls,' filed March 4, 2026, in just 118 days from filing to grant, versus a typical utility patent wait exceeding two years. The patent describes a method where a server receives a request, an LLM generates a code block encapsulating tool calls, that block executes in a sandbox, and pauses to transmit individual pending calls to a client for execution before resuming with results substituted.

Mistral receives US patent on code-implemented tool calls in 118 days According to Agent Wars, the US Patent and Trademark Office granted Mistral AI patent number 12,670,045 B1 on June 30, 2026 for 'code implemented tool calls,' filed March 4, 2026—118 days from filing to grant, versus a typical utility patent wait exceeding two years. The patent describes a method where a server receives a request, an LLM generates a code block encapsulating tool calls, that block executes in a sandbox, and pauses to transmit individual pending calls to a client for execution before resuming with results substituted. Topics Sources - Press Read article https://agent-wars.com/news/2026-08-11-mistral-code-tool-calls-patent-b1 Go deeper This intelligence is sourced automatically from public sources across the web and synthesised by the Prefactor AI pipeline. Stories are reviewed before publication.