US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Authoring a conversation service module from relational data" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,256, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Authoring a conversation service module from relational data" was invented by Tin Kam Ho (Millburn, N.J.), Vadim Sheinin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Elahe Khorasani (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of authoring a conversation service for a chatbot and a database includes receiving, from a user, a selection of a database, and connecting an authoring service of the chatbot to a table in the database; outputting, from the authoring service to the user, a question requesting a description of a subject matter of t...