US Patent Issued to Snap on July 28 for "Chatbot response system" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,713, issued on July 28, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Chatbot response system" was invented by Aliaksei Mikhailiuk (London), Sergey Smetanin (London), Pavel Savchenkov (London), Hee Hun Kim (Los Angeles), Tianxiang Gao (Bothell, Wash.), Neha Yadav (Seattle), Bingqian Lu (Ontario, Calif.) and Emily Ann Claudet (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and system for responding to user posts containing images with relevant image responses during conversation between a user and a chatbot. The system receives an image post from the user and generates a description of the image using an imag...