ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,449, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Shutterstock Inc. (New York).
"Chat-powered search using artificial intelligence" was invented by Raymond Lui Smyth (Dublin), Christopher Loy (London), Keenan Kadam (London) and Timothy Williams (Woking, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and storage media for refining search queries through interactive conversational exchange are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may receive a first search input from a user describing a desired asset such as an image. Aspects implementations may also interact with the user via a chat interface to solicit additional details about ...