US Patent Issued to Google on May 26 for "Building a pragmatic action-item system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,646, issued on May 26, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Building a pragmatic action-item system" was invented by Olivier Siohan (Mountain View, Calif.), Kishan Sachdeva (Mountain View, Calif.), Joshua Maynez (Mountain View, Calif.) and Benyah Shaparenko (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a transcript of multiple dialog acts during a multi-party communication session and extracting, from the transcript, a plurality of extractive action items each associated with a task expected to be completed within a timeframe to begin after the multi-party communication session ends....