ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,635, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Digital assistant hardware abstraction" was invented by Bryan Hansen (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Nikrouz Ghotbi (Seattle), Yifeng Gui (Monte Sereno, Calif.), Xinyuan Huang (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin S. Phipps (San Francisco), Eugene Ray (San Jose, Calif.), Mahesh Ramaray Shanbhag (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jaireh Tecarro (Oakland, Calif.) and Sumit Wattal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates to intelligent automated assistants and, more specifically, to intelligent context sharing and task performance among a collection of devices with intelligen...