ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,520, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Selectively using sensors for contextual data" was invented by Saurabh Adya (San Jose, Calif.), Myra C. Lukens (San Francisco), Aswath Manoharan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alkeshkumar M. Patel (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for determining a response includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, performing a semantic analysis on the spoken input, determining, based on the semantic anal...