ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,386, issued on July 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Calendar consultation dialogue processor" was invented by Alice Jane Bernheim Brush (Bellevue, Wash.), Urmila Singhal (Redmond, Wash.), Ashok Kuppusamy (Mercer Island, Wash.), Suheyla E. B. Onalan (Kirkland, Wash.), Shanna Xiao Chen (Seattle), Kelvin K. Tam (Bellevue, Wash.), Sarah N. Siritaratiwat (Seattle), Stefan Valianu (Redmond, Wash.), Lisa J. Stifelman (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Aleksandr A. Milanin (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for a calendar consultation with a user. The disclosed tech...