ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,482, issued on March 25, was assigned to Theai Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Controlling safety settings for behavior characteristics of artificial intelligence characters" was invented by Ilya Gelfenbeyn (Palo Alto, Calif.), Mikhail Ermolenko (Mountain View, Calif.), Kylan Gibbs (San Francisco), Aleksey Tikhonov (Berlin) and Khaled Jedoui (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for controlling safety settings for behavior characteristics of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character model are provided. An example method includes receiving context associated with the AI character model; determining,...