ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,482, issued on March 17, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Schema-guided response generation" was invented by Abhinav Kumar Rastogi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raghav Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Xiaoxue Zang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinivas Kumar Sunkara (Mountain View, Calif.) and Pranav Khaitan (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Generally, the present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for performing task-oriented response generation that can provide advantages for artificial intelligence systems or other computing systems that include natural language processing for interpreting user in...