ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,967, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Knowledge base generation" was invented by Chenyun Zhao (Mountain View, Calif.), Dusan Bosnjakovic (Los Angeles), Victor Francisco Calderon Arrivillaga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Clifford Green (San Diego), Brian Smith (Austin, Texas) and Tomer Tal (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for generating a knowledge base for facilitating interactions between users and an automated assistant. An example method is performed by one or more processors of a computing system. The example method may include receiving a transmission over a co...