ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,824, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ADP Inc. (Roseland, N.J.).

"Scaling virtual assistant system execution via machine learning based data mining and event identification" was invented by Roberto Silveira (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Roberto Coutinho (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Guilherme Gomes (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Carlos Nascimento (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and Juliano Vacaro (Porto Alegre, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can receive textual input from a client device via a chatbot interface. The system can classify, by machine learning models, the textual input into categories, where the categories correspond to content-...