US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on Nov. 18 for "IoT security knowledge-based chatbot system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,115, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"IoT security knowledge-based chatbot system" was invented by Yilin Zhao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ke Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Dylan Stewart Spagnuolo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mei Wang (Saratoga, Calif.), Kanimozhi Kalaichelvan (San Jose, Calif.) and Yelman Ur Rehman Khan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stateful chatbot system leverages generative AI to provide an interface by which users can retrieve information from backend IoT databases of a security provider via natural language queries. Upon receiving a natural language query th...