ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,647, issued on June 17, was assigned to Theai Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Dynamic control of knowledge scope of artificial intelligence characters" was invented by Ilya Gelfenbeyn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mikhail Ermolenko (Mountain View, Calif.), Kylan Gibbs (San Francisco), Kirill Ryzhov (Mountain View, Calif.), Roman Gusarov (San Jose, Calif.) and Nathan Yu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamically controlling a knowledge scope of artificial intelligence (AI) characters are provided. An example method includes associating a knowledge store with an AI character generated by an AI character...