ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,712, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method for predicting trip purposes based on input topics utilizing a purpose prediction model" was invented by Grace Wu (Mountain View, Calif.), Shashank Shashikant Rao (San Jose, Calif.), Susrutha Gongalla (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ngoc Nhung Ho (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for recommending trip purposes to users of an application. Embodiments include receiving labeled travel data from the application running on a remote device including a plurality of trip purposes. E...