US Patent Issued to Apple on June 10 for "Devices and methods for invoking digital assistants" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,554, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for invoking digital assistants" was invented by Garrett L. Weinberg (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Susan L. Booker (San Carlos, Calif.), Didier Rene Guzzoni (Montsur-Rolle, Switzerland), Jessica Peck (San Jose, Calif.), Harry J. Saddler (Berkeley, Calif.), Lynn Irene Streja (San Francisco) and Lily Shuting Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for invoking digital assistants are provided. An example method includes displaying, on a display, a virtual reality ("VR") environment, wherein the VR environment includ...