US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 11 for "Providing search results using a digital assistant based on a displayed application" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,721, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Providing search results using a digital assistant based on a displayed application" was invented by Hiu Yi Chan (Seattle), Jessica J. Peck (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Robert S. Bowles Sinclair (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates generally to providing search results using a digital assistant based on a displayed application. An example method includes: while displaying a user interface corresponding to an application, receiving, via the one or more input devices, a user input corresponding to a request to initiate a process to perform a...