ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,410, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Gestural prompting based on conversational artificial intelligence" was invented by Abhishek Rohatgi (Roxboro, Canada), Eduardo Olvera (Phoenix), Dinesh Samtani (Mississaug, Canada), Flaviu Gelu Negrean (Montreal) and Manar Alazma (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method that includes obtaining data that describes (a) a situation, (b) a gesture for a response to the situation, (c) a prompt to accompany the response, and (d) a gestural annotation for the response, and utilizing a conversational machine learn...