ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,275, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to GRAMMARLY INC..
"Detecting the tone of text" was invented by Dimitris Alikaniotis (San Francisco), Stanislav Levental (San Francisco) and Alex Shevchenko (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the disclosed technologies are capable of detecting a tone in text. A detected tone may be used to inform a decision made by and/or output produced by a grammatical error correction system. A set of candidate tones may be presented to a user for feedback. User feedback on the candidate tones may be used to improve subsequent tone detections."
The patent was filed on May 16, 202...