ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,735, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to ItsAllAbout Inc. (Los Angeles).

"Machine learning-based interactive conversation system with topic-specific state machines" was invented by Damiano Bolzoni (Los Angeles) and Leone Baruh (Castelmassa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing an interactive conversation platform that can engage in conversation with a user in a manner that simulates humanistic interaction are provided. The interactive conversation application may have a plurality of topic specific state machines and may provide a user interface (UI) for selecting one of the plurality of topic specifi...