ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,919, issued on May 20, was assigned to Cengage Learning Inc. (Boston).
"Apparatus and method for delivering adaptive educational content" was invented by James Chilton (Hollis, N.H.), Charles Qian (Cincinnati), Peter Griffiths (North Weymoth, Mass.), Jay Mehta (Newton, Mass.) and Thais Alencar (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, an apparatus for delivering adaptive educational content using an automated tutoring model includes a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor is presented. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to receive a prompt from a user. The pro...