ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,276, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automatic out of scope transition for chatbot" was invented by Vishal Vishnoi (Redwood City, Calif.), Xin Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Elias Luqman Jalaluddin (Seattle), Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde (Belmont, Calif.), Crystal C. Pan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mark Edward Johnson (Castle Cove, Australia), Thanh Long Duong (Pointcook, Australia), Balakota Srinivas Vinnakota (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Manish Parekh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for automatically switching between chatbot skills in the same domain. In one particula...