ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,447, issued on Jan. 13.

"Intelligent assistant system for conversational job search" was invented by Stephen Derek Ost (Scottsdale, Ariz.) and Zarina Shafeeva (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system establishes a dialogue with a candidate computing system via an intelligent assistant. The intelligent assistant of the computing system prompts the candidate computing system for information regarding a job search. The prompting is performed in natural language. The computing system generates a query by applying natural language processing and natural language understanding technology to communications sent b...