ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,132, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for determining characteristics of a dialog between a computer and a user" was invented by Tuan Manh Lai (Lafayette, Ind.), Trung Bui (San Jose, Calif.) and Quan Tran (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is disclosed for determining one or more characteristics of a dialog between a computer system and user. The method may comprise receiving a system utterance comprising one or more tokens defining one or more words generated by the computer system; receiving a user utterance comprising one or more toke...