US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 5 for "Ethical virtual assistant training platform" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,616, issued on May 5, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ethical virtual assistant training platform" was invented by Jeremy R. Fox (Georgetown, Texas), Fernando Luiz Koch (Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.), Martin G. Keen (Cary, N.C.) and Jessica Nahulan (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment establishes a population database. The embodiment constructs a behavior framework based on population data stored on the population database. The embodiment initiates a training process to train a virtual assistant to generate an output response in response to a query, including training the virt...