ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,327, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A. (New York).

"Systems and methods for intent-based natural language processing" was invented by Ben White (Mount Gilead, Ohio), Michael C. Stikkel (Columbus, Ohio) and James Cook (Westerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for intent-based natural language processing may include a conversation engine receiving text of an utterance in a conversation from a conversation program, storing a session identifier for the conversation and a conversation state for the conversation, selecting one of a plurality a priority of intents based on the text of the utterance...