US Patent Issued to Target Brands on Jan. 13 for "Extensible digital assistant interface using natural language processing to respond to user intent" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,623, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Target Brands Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Extensible digital assistant interface using natural language processing to respond to user intent" was invented by Kiran Dhotre (Minneapolis), Aswin Kumar (Karnataka, India) and Gayathri Kushalappa (Shoreview, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform, method, and system for a digital assistant are disclosed. The digital assistant uses natural language processing to respond to user queries. The digital assistant is extensible, because it can interface with a variety of devices, with a variety of natural language understanding providers, and with a varie...