ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,015, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Natural language question generation" was invented by Anoop Kumar (Fountain Valley, Calif.), Yi Fung (Quincy, Mass.), Premkumar Natarajan (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.), Aram Galstyan (Los Angeles) and Heng Ji (Champaign, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating a natural language prompt to further a goal of a dialog, are described. During a dialog, the system receives one or more user inputs including a user question, a user response to the question, and a request to generate a further question following the response. The system determ...