US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on June 23 for "Interruption response by an artificial intelligence character" (Swedish, American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,986, issued on June 23, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Interruption response by an artificial intelligence character" was invented by James R. Kennedy (Glendale, Calif.), Reshmashree Bangalore Kantharaju (Pasadena, Calif.), Maike Paetzel-Pruesmann (Zurich), Ronald Cumbal (Stockholm) and Komath Naveen Kumar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a hardware processor, a memory storing software code, and a machine learning (ML) model trained to detect an interruption to a conversation. The system detects, during a conversational turn by an artificial intelligence (AI) character in inte...