ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,502, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Natural assistant interaction" was invented by Juan Carlos Garcia (San Francisco), Paul S. McCarthy (Travesrse City, Mich.) and Kurt Piersol (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating a virtual assistant to provide natural assistant interaction are provided. In accordance with one or more examples, a method includes, at an electronic device with one or more processors and memory: receiving a first audio stream including one or more utterances; determining whether the first audio stream includes a lexical trigger; generat...