ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,677, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Continuous dialog with a digital assistant" was invented by Garrett L. Weinberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Harry J. Saddler (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, a first speech input directed to a digital assistant is received from a user. A first response is provided based on the first speech input. A session window is initiated, wherein the session window is associated with a variable speech threshold. A second speech input is received during the session ...