US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 11 for "Intelligent automated assistant in a home environment" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,282, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Intelligent automated assistant in a home environment" was invented by Garett R. Nell (Seattle), Roshni Malani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sean P. Brown (Saratoga, Calif.) and Benjamin L Brumbaugh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example process, discourse input representing a user request is received. The process determines whether the discourse input relates to a device of an established location. In response to determining that the discourse input relates to a...