ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,894, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Reference resolution during natural language processing" was invented by Antoine R. Raux (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yi Ma (Milpitas, Calif.), Kevin D. Pitolin (Cupertino, Calif.), Felicia Edwards (Belmont, Calif.) and Chengchao Yang (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, detecting invocation of a digital assistant; determining, using a reference resolution service, a set of possible entities; receiv...