US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 16 for "Conversational collaboration in a metaverse environment" (Mexican, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,401, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Conversational collaboration in a metaverse environment" was invented by Carolina Garcia Delgado (Zapopan, Mexico) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for conversational collaboration in a metaverse environment. A computer uses natural language processing to understand a question of a user about an object in the metaverse environment. A computer constructs an aggregated response to the question, based on one or more responses ...