ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,218, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Digital assistant response framework" was invented by Rebecca P. Fish (San Francisco), Neal S. Ellis (San Francisco), Aswini Ramesh (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Reddy (Santa Rosa, Calif.), Patchaya B. Seilaudom (Cupertino, Calif.) and Andrew P. Tennant (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, an electronic device can provide an output in an audio, visual, or mixed mode. In one example process, an output mode is selected, and, in response to determining that ...