ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,901, issued on April 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multimodal artificial intelligence-based communication systems" was invented by Yuan Yuan Ding (Shanghai), Yang Liu (Zhong Xin City, China), Jing Zhang (Shanghai), Yu Pan (Shanghai) and Shi Yun Liang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, and computer program products for multimodal artificial intelligence-based communication systems are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes generating, using a first set of one or more artificial intelligence techniques, identifying information for one or more objec...