ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,260, issued on June 9, was assigned to PAYMENTUS Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for aggregating user sessions for interactive transactions using virtual assistants" was invented by Dushyant Sharma (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described for aggregating user sessions for conversational exchanges using a virtual assistant. A user device can receive conversational inputs, convert the conversational inputs into textual strings, associate, based upon semantic analysis of different portions of the textual strings, a first network and a second network, and ...