ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,173, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Entefy Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and method for enabling autonomous artificial intelligence-enabled skills exchanges between agents over a network" was invented by Alston Ghafourifar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Mehdi Ghafourifar (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved decentralized, blockchain-driven network for artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled skills exchange between Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) in a network is disclosed that is configured to perform computational tasks or services (also referred to herein as "skills") in an optimally-effici...