ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,811, issued on March 4, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Conversation graph navigation with language model" was invented by Joseph Lange (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure provide for a system for navigating a conversation graph using a language model trained to generate Application Programming Interface (API) calls in response to natural language input from a user computing device. A conversational agent implementing a state handler and a language model (LM) communicates with a user computing device through a user frontend. Rather than communicating directly with a user with output i...