ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,348, issued on July 22, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for inserting dialogue into a query response" was invented by Ankur Anil Aher (Maharashtra, India) and Nishchit Mahajan (Punjab, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for inserting dialogue into query responses by generating and using dialogue metadata in conjunction with response templates. Metadata for each portion of dialogue of a plurality of portions of dialogue from a number of content items is stored, including information regarding the source content item, a transcript of the dialogue, and...