ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,746, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Emotional intelligence in language model-based conversational agents through situationally adaptive trait expression" was invented by Mara Clair Segal (Menlo Park, Calif.), Chun Hui Bao (Seattle), Ruonan Hao (Kirkland, Wash.), Bryan Jimenez (Seattle) and Maitri Prraveg Shroff (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for simulating emotional intelligence in language model-based conversational agents through situationally adaptive trait expression are described. A text representation of a recording of a verbal request of a user recorded by a device and...