ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,688, issued on April 29, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Natural language dialog system for computer program interaction" was invented by Anna Kipnis (San Bruno, Calif.), Robert J. Mical (Redwood City, Calif.), Steven Lee Pucci (Los Gatos, Calif.), Benjamin Pietrzak (San Francisco), Rachel Bernstein (San Francisco) and Aaron D. Cohen (Newark, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A video game system provides dialog responses based on a natural language model (NLM). The NLM is a language model that receives a language input, such as a dialog selection, audio recording, or natural language text input provided by a u...