US Patent Issued to SRI International on July 22 for "Conversational assistant for conversational engagement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,869, issued on July 22, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Conversational assistant for conversational engagement" was invented by Edgar T. Kalns (San Jose, Calif.), Dimitra Vergyri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Girish Acharya (Redwood City, Calif.), Andreas Kathol (El Cerrito, Calif.), Leonor Almada (Santa Clara, Calif.), Hyong-Gyun Kim (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nikoletta Basiou (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Wessel (Palo Alto, Calif.), Aaron Spaulding (Menlo Park, Calif.), Roland Heusser (Daly City, Calif.), James F. Carpenter (Mountain View, Calif.) and Min Yin (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversatio...