US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Generating summary and next actions in real-time for multiple users from interaction records in natural language" (Irish, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,344, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating summary and next actions in real-time for multiple users from interaction records in natural language" was invented by Yufang Hou (Dublin), Akihiro Kishimoto (Setagaya, Japan), Beat Buesser (Ashtown, Ireland) and Bei Chen (Blanchardstown, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives messaging, video and/or audio input streams including dialogue spoken by users at a group meeting. From these inputs, the system obtains single or multiple interaction records including natural language text memorializing content spoken by e...