ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,337, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context-based question generation from communication data" was invented by Srini Bhagavan (Dublin, Calif.), Prasanna Alur Mathada (Bangalore, India), Shwetha Gopalakrishna (Banagalore, India) and Hrishikesh Sujaya Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided to generate context-based questions from communications data. In embodiments, a method includes: determining, by a processor set, context of text under study obtained from digital communications data; generating, by the processor set, a text-...