ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,933, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Modality selection for responding to prompts" was invented by Wei Dai (Hangzhou, China), Maikl Adly Abdel-Malek Eskander (Seattle), Chensi Mao (Hangzhou, China) and Yang Sun (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server obtains a prompt from a user device. The server determines a score representing a likelihood that the prompt matches an intent. The server selects, based on the score, a modality to generate a response to the prompt. The modality is selected from a group comprising a workflow for the intent and a generative pretrained tran...