ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,813, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Villani Analytics LLC.

"Chat tool for financial planning and analysis functions" was invented by Daniel A. Villani (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure improves the efficiency and accuracy of Financial Planning & Analysis functions within large companies. This improvement is facilitated via a chatbot tool, which functions against financial systems in an organization. Key tool components include a chat interface, a presentation component, a visualization component, a forecast component, and an AI component. The AI component provides AI capabilities to the other componen...