ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,459, issued on April 14, was assigned to LexisNexis Risk Solutions Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for chatbot authentication" was invented by Lancelot Pregniard (Paris), Sharfaraz Salek (New York), Yaniv Koss (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Peter Greene (Pompano Beach, Fla.) and Philip Michael Flynn (Dayton, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a chatbot authentication system and process that may utilize a large language model (LLM) and state of the art generative natural language processing (NLP) to generate and/or interpret user answers questions generated based on comprehensive known data about the user. ...