ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,301, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated generation of dialogue flow from documents" was invented by Dakuo Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Anbang Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Mo Yu (White Plains, N.Y.), Chuang Gan (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiaotong Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Haibin Liu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computerized method, system and computer program product for building a dialogue flow. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving an input document, the input document comprising content, and generating, by a question-answer pipeline, a plurality of...