US Patent Issued to Apple on March 18 for "Far-field extension of digital assistant services for providing a notification of an event to a user" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,887, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Far-field extension of digital assistant services for providing a notification of an event to a user" was invented by Yoon Kim (Los Altos, Calif.), Charles Srisuwananukorn (Belmont, Calif.), David A. Carson (San Francisco), Thomas R. Gruber (Seattle) and Justin G. Binder (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide extension of digital assistant services are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving, from a first use...