ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,412, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Voice-activated shortcut registration" was invented by Michael R. Sumner (Cary, N.C.), Cameron Burgess (San Francisco), Ari R. Weinstein (San Francisco), Ross A. Freeman (San Francisco), Michael A. Gorbach (Scotts Valley, Calif.) and Lynn I. Streja (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated digital assistant on an electronic device are provided. In particular, this paper describes the automatic registration of voice-activated shortcuts for a particular application at a vocabulary engine associated w...