US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Aug. 26 for "Systems and methods for enabling a virtual assistant in different environments" (California, Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,537, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for enabling a virtual assistant in different environments" was invented by Christopher Phillips (Hartwelll, Ga.), Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.) and Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for enabling the protection of user privacy when adding a virtual assistant to a conference. A conference is initiated between a first computing device and at least a second computing device and a virtual assistant is added to the conference. At the virtual assistant, it is identified that the virtual ...