ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,347, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Automatic action item detection" was invented by Mehdi Mirzaaghaei (North Vancouver, Canada), Bogdan Ciprian Pistol (West Vancouver, Canada) and Afshin Khashei (West Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for automatic action item detection and generation. In some aspects, textual data, such as may be generated based on an interaction between at least two entities, may be received. At least one issue may be identified in the text using a first machine learning model. At least one action item, corresponding to the i...