ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,887, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Network-based communication session copilot" was invented by Xiao Yan Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Amir Kantor (Haifa, Israel), Ido Priness (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Shiraz Jitendra Cupala (Snohomish, Wash.), Kevin Michael Carter (Atlanta), Adi Miller (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Kumud Ranjan (Redmond, Wash.), Shyam Gupta (Surrey, Canada), Gautam Jain (Surrey, Canada), Yasemin Cenberoglu (Montreal), Shai Ifrach (Yavne, Israel), Shlomi Maliah (Rosh Hayin, Israel), Jaime Teevan (Bellevue, Wash.) and Lan Ye (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A s...