ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,749,476, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Sentiment-based adaptation of digital human responses" was invented by Michael David Shepherd (Leander, Texas) and Jonathan M. Whitson (Mountain Grove, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for sentiment-based adaptation of digital human responses. One method comprises determining a sentiment of a user by analyzing a vocal sentiment, a text sentiment and/or a facial sentiment of the user; applying the determined sentiment of the user to a language model that determines a sentiment-tagged response to an input of the user based on the ...