ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,394, issued on June 16.
"Natural language system and methods" was invented by Cyrus Shaoul (Dummerston, Vt.), Henry Bowdoin Minsky (Newton, Mass.), Milan Singh Minsky (Newton, Mass.) and Max Carlson (Tallin, Estonia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A natural language understanding (NLU) system utilizes a knowledge network having interconnected actor perceiver predictor (APP) nodes associated with context, action, and result. For a received utterance, an utterance type is determined, and an input message is generated based on the utterance type. The input message includes word-concept groupings, which include words of the received utter...