ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,747, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Digital assistant for providing and modifying an output of an electronic document" was invented by Daniel A. Castellani (San Jose, Calif.), Didier Guzzoni (Mont-sur-Rolle, Switzerland) and Pierre-Louis Jallerat (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for providing and modifying an output of an electronic document using a digital assistant of an electronic device are provided. An example method comprises receiving, at the first electronic device, a message, wherein the message includes an electronic document including text; detecting, by...