ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,434, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Attention aware virtual assistant dismissal" was invented by Musa M. Hindi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Rohit Dasari (San Francisco) and Trungtin Tran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes initiating a virtual assistant session responsive to receiving user input. In accordance with initiating the virtual assistant session, the process includes determining, based on data obtained using one or more sensors of the electronic device, whether one or ...