ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,044, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Openstream Inc. (Bridgewater, N.J.).

"Methods for reinforcement document transformer for multimodal conversations and devices thereof" was invented by Chaitanya Kanchibhotla (Telangana, India), Pruthvi Raj Venkatesh (Karnataka, India), Rishu Kumar (Jharkhand, India), Radha Krishna Pisipati (Telangana, India) and Rajasekhar Tumuluri (Bridgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for enrichment of responses in a multimodal conversation environment are disclosed. A Question Answer (QA) engine, such as a reinforcement document transformer exploits a docu...