ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,351, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Processing of transactions based on chatbot interactions" was invented by Jennifer Delaney (Mountain View, Calif.), Erez Dickman (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Shay Davidson (Tel-Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chat bot can be coupled with a chat session, the chat session being hosted by a chat service to facilitate communication between chat application instances. The chat bot can simulate one of the plurality of chat application instances. A first chat text can be accessed via the chat bot, the first chat text provided via the chat session by a first chat ...