ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,258, issued on June 17, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Multi-level emotional enhancement of dialogue" was invented by Sanchita Tiwari (Cumming, Ga.), Justin Ali Kennedy (Norwell, Mass.), Dirk Van Dall (Shelter Island, N.Y.), Xiuyang Yu (Unionville, Conn.), Daniel Cahall (Philadelphia) and Brian Kazmierczak (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for emotionally enhancing dialogue includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code including a predictive model. The processing hardware is configured to execute the software code to receive dialo...