ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,442, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating responses using a context engine coupled with a logic engine and time phrase resolution" was invented by Rajkumar Janakiraman (Sammamish, Wash.), Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and James Johnson (San Marcos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for generating responses to prompts by utilizing a context engine and a logic engine. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can determine a prompt received from a client device involves one ...