US Patent Issued to Grammarly on April 8 for "Intent-based suggestion of phrases in a text editor" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,697, issued on April 8, was assigned to Grammarly Inc. (San Francisco).

"Intent-based suggestion of phrases in a text editor" was invented by Jennifer van Dam (Vancouver, Canada), Sergey Yavnyi (Richmond, Calif.), Xiaoshan Li (Campbell, Calif.), Masha Ivenskaya (San Francisco) and Jared Foelsch (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented process is programmed to detect a type or category of document that is being drafted and to suggest one or more phrases or sentences to add to the original and/or substitute for the original, the suggested text being potentially more personable and sincere than the writer's o...