ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,923, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Leveraging inferred context to improve suggested messages" was invented by Poonam Ganesh Hattangady (Kirkland, Wash.), Susan Marie Grimshaw (Kirkland, Wash.) and Michael Ivan Borysenko (Brighton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for using a generative artificial intelligence (AI) model to generate a suggested draft reply to a selected message. A message generation system and method are described that use inferred context to improve the suggested draft reply message for the user. Various message data and additional cont...