ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,128, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Socialtrait Inc. (Mount Waverley, Australia).

"Systems and methods for generating synthetic data using computer-simulated personas and machine learning-based persona selection" was invented by Mohammad Mahdi Kazemi Moghaddam (Sydney), Lukas Judith (Sydney), Sachit Shanbhag (Maharashtra, India) and Suraj Narayanan Sasikumar (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating automated discourse data using computer-generated synthetic personas is disclosed. The method is implemented at a synthetic discourse data service executing as an API-based application within a distributed networ...