US Patent Issued to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL on March 25 for "Visual assist chatbot for improved accessibility of content by a visually impaired user" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,235, issued on March 25, was assigned to MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INC. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Visual assist chatbot for improved accessibility of content by a visually impaired user" was invented by Marion Bonnet (Miami), Ankurjyoti Bordoloi (Guwahati, India) and Karan Paresh Trivedi (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples provide a system for automatically identifying a user with a visual impairment and providing assistance navigating a website. A visual assist (VA) manager monitors user interactions with a webpage, such as zooming-in to increase the size of text and graphics and navigation errors, such as clicking on an...