ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,551, issued on May 20, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning based on graphical element generator for communication platform" was invented by Aaron Maurer (New York), Lichen Ni (Vancouver, Canada), Kyle Jablon (Long Island City, N.Y.), Ryan Slama (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Jake Polacek (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating graphical elements via a communication platform are discussed herein. For example, one or more machine-learning models associated with a communication platform may be configured to receive, as input and from a user of the communication platform, a sentiment a...