ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,994, issued on March 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Automated conversation content items from natural language" was invented by Maheen Sohail (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Hyunbin Park (Redwood City, Calif.), Ruoni Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Vincent Charles Cheung (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A conversation augmentation system can automatically augment a conversation with content items based on natural language from the conversation. The conversation augmentation system can select content items to add to the conversation based on determined user "intents" generated using machin...