ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,384, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to I'MBESIDEYOU INC. (Tokyo).

"Information processing system for generating response data for a character, method and program" was invented by Shozo Kamiya (Tokyo) and Kotaro Ando (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing system characterized by comprising: a response data generation unit that generates response data with which a character responds in response to conversation data from a user to the character, wherein the response data generation unit generates the response data so as to quote lines included in an original work in which the character appears; and an output un...