ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,925, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Bitdefender IPR Management Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Systems and methods of detecting chatbots" was invented by Florin M. Brad (Campina, Romania), Andrei M. Manolache (Bucharest, Romania) and Elena Burceanu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments determine whether an entity engaging in online conversations comprises a chatbot. A challenge message is constructed according to a current context of an ongoing conversation, by employing a generative language model to determine a plausible conversation sequel and subsequently distorting the respective sequel. The challeng...