ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,037, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating smart topics for video calls using a large language model and a context transformer engine" was invented by Joseph Grillo (San Francisco), Emir Aydin (Vancouver, Canada), Ritu Vincent (Alamo, Calif.) and William Adamowicz (Los Angeles).

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 utilizing a context transformer engine, a smart topic agent, and a large language model to generate a smart topic output. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems gener...