ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,385, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for a reading and comprehension assistance tool" was invented by Philippe Laban (New York) and Chien-Sheng (Jason) Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide a method and system for generating a reading interface for a user. The method includes receiving a first text passage from a first data source and a second text passage from a second data source. The method also includes generating a candidate question relating to contents of the first and the second text passages. The method further in...