ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,276, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to OrangeDot Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Method and system for automatically determining responses in a messaging platform" was invented by Setu Shah (San Francisco) and Watson Xi (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In variants, a method for automatically determining responses in a messaging platform can include: receiving a set of inputs; determining a set of response options based on the set of inputs; and providing the set of response options to a user. The method can optionally further include training and/or updating a set of models, and/or updating a corpus of historical response...