US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Updating constraints for computerized assistant actions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,431, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Updating constraints for computerized assistant actions" was invented by Yuchen Zhang (Fremont, Calif.), Jason Andrew Wolfe (Berkeley, Calif.), Adam David Pauls (San Francisco) and David Leo Wright Hall (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of adapting a computerized assistant program to satisfy an updated constraint. The method comprises maintaining a dialogue history including a first utterance that indicates an initial constraint. The method further comprises receiving a second utterance indicating a new constraint that ...