ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,053, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to OpenAI OpCo LLC (San Francisco).

"Real time voice mode generative response engine with turn detection" was invented by Wayne Chang (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mianna Chen (San Francisco), Bogumil Kazimierz Giertler (San Francisco), Tomer Kaftan (San Francisco), Alex Kirillov (San Francisco), Edede Oiwoh (San Francisco), Olaoluwa Okelola (San Francisco), Raul Puri (San Francisco), Brendan Quinn (San Francisco), Ievgen Varavva (San Mateo, Calif.), Tao Xu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Rowan Zellers (San Francisco) and Yu Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems, apparat...