ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,775, issued on July 14, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Chat card engine(s) for conversational chat cards" was invented by Shay Ben-Elazar (Herzliya, Israel), Ella Ben Tov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Yonatan Turkin (Givatayim, Israel), Daniel Sitton (Tel Aviv, Israel), Merav Mofaz (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ori Bar-Ilan (Even Yehuda, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing adaptive and conversational chat cards are provided herein. For example, a method may include receiving, from a client device, an indication to start a chat card exercise, determining, by a chat card engine,...