ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,663, issued on May 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Endpoint detection" was invented by Adam Earle (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ali Ziaei (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jack Weissenberger (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Romain Cosentino (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for a method of obtaining a token based on a conversation in real time. The method further includes predicting, using a large language model (LLM) and the token, a next token. The method further includes predicting, using a classifier and the next token, a completion of a user turn. The method further includes triggering a ne...