US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 1 for "Maintaining state and context of conversations between a user and digital assistant using threads" (Dutch, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,686, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Maintaining state and context of conversations between a user and digital assistant using threads" was invented by Steven Martijn Davelaar (Utrecht, Netherlands) and Jashanpreet Singh (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for maintaining state and context of conversations between a user and digital assistant using threads. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a natural language utterance from a user during a session, obtaining a topic context instance for the natural language utterance, and generating, by a GenAI ...