US Patent Issued to SRI International on March 24 for "Method, system and apparatus for understanding and generating human conversational cues" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,563, issued on March 24, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Method, system and apparatus for understanding and generating human conversational cues" was invented by Harry Bratt (Mountain View, Calif.), Kristin Precoda (Columbus, Ohio) and Dimitra Vergyri (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voice-based digital assistant (VDA) uses a conversation intelligence (CI) manager module having a rule-based engine on conversational intelligence to process information from one or more modules to make determinations on both i) understanding the human conversational cues and ii) generating the human conversat...