US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Dec. 30 for "Voicemail handling" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,245, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Voicemail handling" was invented by Nicolas Harry Neate (Reading, Great Britain), Andrew John Robinson Hodges (Enfield, Great Britain) and Austin Francis Spreadbury (Enfield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform a method comprising receiving a voicemail message and generating a prompt for a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model. The prompt comprises a request for a classification into one of a plurality of classe...