ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,044, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Emotionally responsive artificial intelligence interactive character" was invented by Douglas A. Fidaleo (Canyon Country, Calif.), James R. Kennedy (Glendale, Calif.) and Michael Barron (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a computing platform having a hardware processor and a memory storing software code, a memory data structure storing memory features for an artificial intelligence interactive character (AIIC), and a trained machine learning (ML) model. The hardware processor executes the software code to receive interac...