US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Coordinated emotion representation and expression in multi-agent digital assistants" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,494, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Coordinated emotion representation and expression in multi-agent digital assistants" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Jessica Nahulan (Markham, Canada), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.) and Fernando Luiz Koch (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an approach to coordinated emotion representation and expression in multi-agent digital assistants, one or more computer processors monitor a conversation of a first user. One or more computer processors determine an intervention opportunity is present in the co...