ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,739, issued on April 21, was assigned to Blue Yonder Group Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods of multimodal interaction-based e-commerce" was invented by Pankaj Rathoure (Hyderabad, India), Mayank Tiwari (Serilingampalle, India) and Santosh Kumar (Ramgarh Cantt, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for performing multimodal fusion for e-commerce. The method includes monitoring a focus prompt of a current user, detecting a response of the current user corresponding to a displayed item, collecting attributes of the displayed item at different levels and track a focus and an emotional state...