ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,375, issued on June 2, was assigned to CYBOZU INC. (Tokyo).

"Work support system, method, and information storage medium for utilizing conversational chatbot in messaging services" was invented by Yohei Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a work support system including at least one processor configured to: acquire posted data indicating a post that has been made on a communication tool that supports work; determine, based on the posted data, whether a mention of an artificial intelligence (AI) has been made; acquire prompt data indicating a prompt provided in advance; cause, when it is determined that the ment...