ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,074, issued on June 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine-learned foundational models for emulating conversational interactions between points of interest" was invented by Victor Carbune (Zurich), Kevin Allekotte (Zurich), Haroon Baig (Zurich), Paula Marques Fernandes (Zurich) and Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Information indicative of a particular geographic area in which a user computing device is located is obtained, wherein the particular geographic area comprises a plurality of Points of Interest (POIs). For a first POI of the plurality of POIs, a first set of t...