US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Dec. 30 for "Backchanneling for interactive systems and applications" (Swiss, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,810, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Backchanneling for interactive systems and applications" was invented by Severin Achill Klingler (Stettlen, Switzerland), Razvan Dinu (Voluntari, Romania), Pascal Joel Berard (Zurich, Switzerland) and Christian Eduard Schuller (Frauenfeld, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, an interactive agent platform that hosts development and/or deployment of an interactive agent such as a digital avatar may employ backchanneling to provide feedback to the user while the user is talking or doing something detectable. For example, backchanneli...