ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,027, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Context engine and interpreter executing computer code for multi-turn interactions" was invented by Ranjitha Gurunath Kulkarni (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jessica D. Johnson (San Marcos, Calif.) and Rajkumar Janakiraman (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for maintaining context during multi-turn interactions. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems can detect an interruption event during the execution of computer code by an interpreter that pauses the ex...