ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,890, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Virtual assistant for generating personalized responses within a communication session" was invented by Adi Miller (Herzilya, Israel), Shira Weinberg (Herzilya, Israel), Haim Somech (Herzilya, Israel) and Hen Fitoussi (Ramat HaSharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Intelligent agents (IA) for automatically generating responses to content within a communication session (CS) are disclosed. An IA is trained to target the responses to a user and the user's context within the CS. An IA receives CS content that includes natural language exp...