ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,902, issued on May 27, was assigned to MH SUB I LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Semi-automated form-based chat" was invented by Martin Alexander Hambrick (Round Rock, Texas), Aaron John Dillon (Pflugerville, Texas) and Hitee Chandra Jha (Fountain Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chat communication session is established between a first and second network device. Displayable content is generated during the chat communication session for transmission by the first network device, where the displayable content includes (i) a first chat question, (ii) a first set of interactive responses to the first chat question, and (iii) a f...