ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,782, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"System and method for determining intentions of messages" was invented by Prakash Ranganathan (Tamilnadu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for determining an intention of a message and/or performing one or more operations based upon the intention are provided. In an example, a first set of text may be received, from a client device, via a messaging interface. Based upon the first set of text, one or more sets of text semantically similar to the first set of text may be determined...