ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,744, issued on April 22, was assigned to ASAPP INC. (New York).

"Statistical language models for simulating communication sessions" was invented by Samuel Andrew Altschul (New York), Ramya Ramakrishnan (Princeton, N.J.), Hashan Buddhika Narangodage (Jersey City, N.J.), Kilian Quirin Weinberger (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Tianyi Zhang (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A statistical language model may be used to simulate one or more users of a conversation. The statistical language model may be used to train a user to participate in a particular types of conversation by simulating communications by another type of user in the conv...