ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,932, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Personality-enhanced chat discourse responses" was invented by Irene Lizeth Manotas Gutierrez (White Plains, N.Y.), Ra'eesa Kabir (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for human-machine interfacing is provided. The present invention may include receiving a personality corpus associated with a personality typology comprising multiple personality types; extracting a plurality of utterances from a ...