ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,674, issued on May 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Applied artificial intelligence technology for narrative generation based on a conditional outcome framework" was invented by Andrew R. Paley (Chicago), Nathan D. Nichols (Chicago), Matthew L. Trahan (Chicago), Maia Lewis Meza (Chicago), Michael Tien Thinh Pham (Chicago) and Charlie M. Truong (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used in combination with composable communication goal statements to facilitate a user's ability to quickly structure story outlines in a manner usable by an NLG narrative generation...