ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,179, issued on June 24, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Conversation intention real-time analysis method" was invented by Kyo Joong Oh (Daejeon, South Korea) and Ho Jin Choi (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversation intention real-time analysis method is provided. A natural language conversation understanding unit determines conversation information regarding a response and a response policy depending on whether a refined sentence refined by a natural language conversation preprocessing unit for determining a question to be answered by analyzing a s...