ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,362, issued on March 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated text generation using artificial intelligence techniques" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Nicholas Michael Wilkin (Seattle), Eris Opal Rashon Calhoun (Atlanta) and Gray Franklin Cannon (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products for automated text generation using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes simulating, using artificial intelligence techniques, at least one textual description of at lea...