US Patent Issued to MasterCard International on July 8 for "Method and system for conversational input device with intelligent crowd-sourced options" (Missouri, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,450, issued on July 8, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Method and system for conversational input device with intelligent crowd-sourced options" was invented by Andrew J. Smith (St. Louis), Saravana Perumal Shanmugam (Fremont, Calif.), Adam Kenneth Hosp (Lake St. Louis, Mo.), Ted P. Sanders (Chesterfield, Mo.), Michael K. Forbis (St. Louis) and Sarala Buradagunta (West Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are described that provide responses to natural language queries regarding the performance of a business. The method and system provide for crowd-sourced data to determine n...