ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,982, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to RAKUTEN GROUP INC. (Tokyo).

"Call subject determination system, call subject determination method, and information storage medium" was invented by Kyosuke Tomoda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a call subject determination system including at least one processor configured to: predict, for each of a plurality of call candidates, a talk probability, which is a probability of succeeding in holding a phone talk with the call candidate; predict, for each of the plurality of call candidates, an advantageous result to be gained from the phone talk with the call candidate; acquire a ta...