ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,536, issued on March 4, was assigned to Outreach Corp. (Seattle).

"Automatically recognizing and surfacing important moments in multi-party conversations" was invented by Krishnamohan Reddy Nareddy (Bellevue, Wash.), Abhishek Abhishek (Sammamish, Wash.), Rohit Ganpat Mane (Seattle) and Rajiv Garg (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for identifying a subjectively interesting moment in a transcript. In an embodiment, a device receives a transcription of a conversation, and identifies a participant of the conversation. The device accesses a machine learning model corresponding to the participant, ...