ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,923, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) (Fredericksburg, Va.).

"Matcher expression evaluation engine with tiered priority comparator" was invented by Daniel L. Swanson (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and/or computer program product aspects, and/or combinations thereof, for a runtime-configurable question-and-answer system that dynamically determines question flow and ordering without hard-coded logic. The system includes a domain-agnostic evaluation engine that evaluates matcher expressions against a context object, a matcher expression ...