ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,354, issued on April 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Speech interpretation based on environmental context" was invented by Brad Kenneth Herman (Culver City, Calif.), Shiraz Akmal (Playa Vista, Calif.), Aaron Mackay Burns (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and David A. Carson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for speech interpretation based on environmental context are provided. For example, a user gaze direction is detected, and a speech input is received from a first user of the electronic device. In accordance with a determination that the user gaze is directed at a digital assistant object, t...