ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,435, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Personalized modification of audio and visual components of a virtual agent of a user interface" was invented by Raghuveer Prasad Nagar (Kota, India), Vivek Chintalapati (Hyderabad, India), Hiti Sinha (Pune, India) and Sidharth Ullal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods and/or computer program products personalizing user interactions with virtual agents of applications and/or services, using audio/visual components customized to appeal to user preferences. Upon initial interaction with virtual agents, AI ranking a...