US Patent Issued to Xerox on June 3 for "Interacting with machines using natural language input and a state graph" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,636, issued on June 3, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Interacting with machines using natural language input and a state graph" was invented by Shiwali Mohan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Matthew Klenk (San Francisco), Matthew Shreve (Campbell, Calif.), Aaron Ang (Mountain View, Calif.), John Turner Maxwell III (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Kent Evans (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes obtaining sensor data indicative of a set of objects detected within an environment. The method also includes determining a set of positions of the set of objects and a set o...