ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,833, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Conversational data analysis" was invented by Zhitao Hou (Redmond, Wash.), Jian-Guang Lou (Redmond, Wash.), Bo Zhang (Redmond, Wash.), Xiao Liang (Redmond, Wash.), Dongmei Zhang (Redmond, Wash.) and Haidong Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject matter described herein relate to conversational data analysis. After a data analysis request is received from a user, heuristic information may be determined based on the data analysis request. The heuristic information mentioned here is not a result for th...