US Patent Issued to Apple on March 11 for "Conversational agent as learning aid" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,253, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Conversational agent as learning aid" was invented by Ian M. Richter (Los Angeles) and David Anders Winarsky (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for generating a response to a user focus indicator value based on a user comprehension value characterizing a user's association with the user focus indicator value. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a user focus indicator value. A sequence of user voice inputs relating to the user focus indicator value is o...