ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,840, issued on June 3, was assigned to Theai Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Relationship graphs for artificial intelligence character models" was invented by Ilya Gelfenbeyn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mikhail Ermolenko (Mountain View, Calif.) and Kylan Gibbs (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing interactions of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character model with users are provided. An example method includes receiving a message from a user of a client-side computing device; retrieving, from a graph, information concerning relationships between the AI character model and the user; generating, based ...