ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,008, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CAPITAL ONE SERVICES LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Modifying dynamic conversational responses based on detecting references to socially close people" was invented by Alexandra Coman (Tysons Corner, Va.), Chihyen Yang (Hoboken, N.J.), Rui Zhang (New York) and Jihoon Jay Song (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for generating dynamic conversational responses sensitive to different emotional contexts using machine learning models. The dynamic conversational responses may be generated in real time and reflect the likely emotional context by detecting socially close en...