ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,650, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to QUANTIPHI INC. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Method and system for training a virtual agent using optimal utterances" was invented by Asif Hasan (Marlborough, Mass.), Gaurav Johar (Toronto), Kanishk Mehta (Toronto), Sreevasthavan K C (Mumbai, India), Akash Mourya (Mumbai, India), Himanshu Kumar (Mumbai, India), Surya S G (Mumbai, India), Harshit Shah (Mumbai, India), Ashwini Patil (Mumbai, India), Saravanan Murugan (Mumbai, India), Anuja Anil Kumar Singh (Mumbai, India) and Tridib Paul (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for training a virtual agent is provided herein. The ...