ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,424, issued on April 7, was assigned to AI SPEECH Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Method and apparatus for determining skill field of dialogue text" was invented by Chengya Zhu (Suzhou, China), Shuai Fan (Suzhou, China), Chun Li (Suzhou, China) and Weisi Shi (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for determining a skill field of a dialogue text including determining a skill field hit by a dialogue text input by a user, and a name semantic slot and a character semantic slot in the skill field; when the dialogue text hits a first skill field, determining whether the name semantic slot and the character semantic ...