US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 14 for "Semantic-aware next best action recommendation" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,443, issued on April 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Semantic-aware next best action recommendation" was invented by Guillaume Didier Jean-Marc Dufour (Petaluma, Calif.), Yang Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Lukasz Janusz Karolewski (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, an embedding model is used to generate an embedding of a natural language searching goal specified by a user, the embedding representing user intent of the user. Playbooks in a database of playbooks are also run through the embedding model to generate an embedding for each playbook indicative...