ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,432, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Yext Inc. (New York).

"Natural language goal determination" was invented by Maxwell Davish (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yen Thai Truong (Aldie, Va.), Nikolas Bramblett (Arlington, Va.) and Maxwell Shaw (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a chat bot includes receiving multiple instruction sets corresponding to multiple goals, each instruction set defining a prompt to a large language model (LLM) to achieve a corresponding goal. The method further includes receiving a chat history from a user, comprising multiple messages, each message being one of a user-authored message or a chat b...