ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,153, issued on Sept. 30.
"Configuration of a virtual assistant" was invented by Ivan Vladimirovich Shalashov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Dmitry Anatolyevich Vasin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Oleg Nikolayevich Slepov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Svetlana Valeryevna Patrina (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Vladislav Valeryevich Kuznetsov (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for configuring a virtual assistant device, the method comprising: setting a first user request to be input via a user interface of the virtual assistant device; associating the first user request with a first output of the...