US Patent Issued to Google on June 17 for "Emotionally intelligent responses to information seeking questions" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,066, issued on June 17, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Emotionally intelligent responses to information seeking questions" was invented by Madelaine Plauche (Oakland, Calif.) and Kate Beryl Berman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating emotionally intelligent responses to information seeking questions includes receiving audio data corresponding to a query spoken by a user and captured by an assistant-enabled device associated with the user, and processing, using a speech recognition model, the audio data to determine a transcription of the query. The method also includes performing quer...