ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,000, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Generation of conversational task completion structure" was invented by Shreeshankar Chatterjee (San Ramon, Calif.), Cynthia Joann Osmon (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Moise (Edmonton, Canada), Tracy Fung (Fremont, Calif.), Vijay Thomas (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jason Michael Webb (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes obtaining, for a task, a help file including steps, and generating, from the help file, a knowledge graph for the task, the knowledge graph includes nodes connected by directed edges. Generating the knowledge graph in...