ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,178, issued on July 14, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Neural dialogue system for security posture management" was invented by Praveen Tiwari (Milpitas, Calif.), Gaurav Sharma (Mountain View, Calif.), Jack Stephen Edmonds (San Jose, Calif.), Dylan Stewart Spagnuolo (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Shuhong Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A neural dialogue system has been designed to present a conversational user interface for managing security posture of an organization. The neural dialogue system determines intent and extracts entity names from a user input. The neural dialogue syste...