ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,383, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Unanimous A. I. Inc. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods and systems for enabling collective superintelligence" was invented by Louis B. Rosenberg (San Luis Obispo, Calif.), Gregg Willcox (Seattle) and Hans Schumann (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes systems and methods for enabling real-time conversational dialog among a large population of networked human users while facilitating convergence on groupwise decisions, insight extraction, and solutions, and amplifying collective intelligence. A plurality of computing devices associated with members of a populati...