ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,266, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to PwC Product Sales LLC (New York).

"Method and apparatus for AI-assisted virtual assistant for SME agent" was invented by Paul Sheward (Chicago), Chung-Sheng Li (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Scott Likens (Austin, Texas), Saverio Fato (Wilton Manors, Fla.), Joseph Doyle Harrington (Granite Bay, Calif.), Joseph David Voyles (Louisville, Ky.), Jonathan B. Rhine (Suffern, N.Y.), Alexander Nicholas Boldizsar (Woodstock, Conn.), Winnie Cheng (West New York, N.J.), Todd Christopher Morrill (Newburgh, N.Y.), Yuan Wan (Irvine, Calif.) and William Spotswood Seward (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method...