US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 25 for "Method of recommending emotion icons" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,825, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method of recommending emotion icons" was invented by Kara A. Smoot (Baltimore), Jennifer M. Hatfield (Portland, Ore.), Kelley Danyi (Virginia Beach, Va.), Jill S. Dhillon (Jupiter, Fla.), Juhi Bharat (Highland Park, N.J.), Vinod A. Valecha (Pune, India) and Uma Subbu (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for improved computer-implemented methods of recommending emotion icons. The embodiment may detect text associated with user activity within a connected messaging environment. The embodiment may, in response to detecting th...