ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,689, issued on May 12, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Determining emotion sequences for speech for conversational AI systems and applications" was invented by Ilia Fedorov (Moscow) and Dmitry Korobchenko (Yerevan, Armenia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, determining emotion sequences for speech in conversational AI systems and applications is described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that use one or more first machine learning models to determine a sequence of emotional states associated with audio data representing speech. To use the first machine learning model(s), the systems and m...