ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,926, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Digital assistant integration with telephony" was invented by Madhusudan Chinthakunta (Saratoga, Calif.), Ping Wen Ong (San Jose, Calif.), Timothy S. Paek (Mercer Island, Wash.), Lauren Elise Tappana (San Francisco) and Marcel Van Os (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for integrating a digital assistant with telephony are provided. For example, an incoming call may be received, from a caller, at an electronic device. A communication session may be established between the caller and the digital assistant of the electronic dev...