ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,218, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for executing a supplemental function for a natural language query" was invented by Sashikumar Venkataraman (Andover, Mass.) and Ahmed Nizam Mohaideen P. (Kovilpatti, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional conversation systems by executing a customized supplemental function for a natural language query based on the user's profile. In some aspects, the systems and methods receive a user query for a media asset, determine a query template in the user's profile matchin...