ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,843, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Intelligent resolution of conflicting information in adaptive dialog systems" was invented by Oznur Alkan (Clonsilla, Ireland), Adi Botea (Dublin), Elizabeth Daly (Dublin), Akihiro Kishimoto (Castleknock, Ireland) and Radu Marinescu (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are provided for intelligent resolution of conflicting information in a dialog system in a computing environment by a processor. Conflicting information relating to one or more queries may be detected between one or more users using the dialog system. O...