ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,936, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Conversational user interfaces with multimodal inputs and mind map like interactions" was invented by Ramprasad Sedouram (Bangalore, India) and Jaunani Sriramachandran (Sammamish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method executed on data processing hardware and including displaying, on a display in communication with the data processing hardware, a user interface for a chat session between a user and a chatbot, the user interface including a plurality of entries input by the user and a plurality of corresponding responses from the chatbot. The method al...