US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 1 for "Adaptive answer confidence scoring by agents in multi-agent system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,832, issued on July 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Adaptive answer confidence scoring by agents in multi-agent system" was invented by Tarun Tater (Nagaur, India), Jaydeep Sen (Bangalore, India), Vatche Isahagian (Belmont, Mass.), Yara Rizk (Cambridge, Mass.) and Vinod Muthusamy (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query can be received from a user. The query can be sent to a plurality of automated agents to process the query. Results and associated confidence scores can be received from the plurality of automated agents. At least some of the results and associated confidence score...