ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,530, issued on May 26, was assigned to Internet Truckstop Group LLC (Boise, Idaho).

"Systems and methods for a conversational assistant using artificial intelligence in a freight management platform" was invented by Jeremy Greene (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Pete Lunenfeld (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Shashank Kapoor (Mundelein, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a method for implementing a conversational assistant in a freight management platform comprises receiving a user query related to a carrier in natural language from a conversational interface; selecting a data repository according to a classification of the user qu...