ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,106, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Identifying related messages in a natural language interaction in multiple iterations" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Cary, N.C.), Micah Forster (Round Rock, Texas), Gray Franklin Cannon (Atlanta) and Mohit Trivedi (Dunwoody, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Using a classical data model executing on a classical processor, a set of classical features is scored. A score of a classical feature comprises an evaluation of a utility of the classical feature in predicting a result involving a resource. Using a quantum data model executing o...