ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,764, issued on May 6, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determining suggested subsequent user actions during digital assistant interaction" was invented by Jamie Harry Drummie (Cambridge, Great Britain), Silvia Frias Delgado (Barcelona, Spain), Andrew J. Haines (London), Samuel E. Turnbull (Leicester, Great Britain) and Johan D. Forsell (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. An example process includes receiving an utterance including a user request, determining, based on the user request, a domain associated with the...