US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for enabling a virtual assistant in different environments" (California, Georgia, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,478, issued on Feb. 18, 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 (Hartwell, 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 managing related conferences. A first conference is initiated between a first computing device and a first group of one or more computing devices. Input to join a second conference is received at the first computing device and the second conference is initiated between the first computing device and...