ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,514, issued on May 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing multiple voice assistant services based on voice input" was invented by Gyanveer Singh (Bangalore, India) and Reda Harb (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for assigning a voice assistant service (VAS) from multiple VASs, based on a voice input. The system generally comprises a processor that is configured to process at least one voice input, e.g., with a wake word, and assign at least one VAS to output a response based on the voice input. Some embodiments support the skill or sk...